Surrounding Gastric Mucosa Findings Facilitate Diagnosis of Gastric Neoplasm as Gastric Adenoma or Early Gastric Cancer

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of patients.

	Gastric adenoma ( = 21)	Early gastric cancer ( = 63)	value
Age, years, median (range)	69 (58–88)	72 (50–89)	0.635
Gender (male/female)	13/8	44/19	0.500
Resection size, mm, mean ± SD	37.0 ± 8.6	39.7 ± 12.1	0.261
Resection tumor size, mm, mean ± SD	15.9 ± 1.5	17.7 ± 1.5	0.407
Location of tumor (U/M/L)	6/7/8	13/22/28	0.741
Macroscopic types (I/IIa/IIb/IIc)	0/12/1/8	1/15/1/46	0.079
Ulcer finding (absence/presence)	1/20	6/57	0.494