Clinical Applicability of Various Treatment Approaches for Upper Gastrointestinal Submucosal Tumors

Table 4

Comparison of the locations and sizes of SMTs and the treatment choices.

	Age (years)			Location (number of SMTs)			Diameter (cm)			<2 cm; (number of SMTs)	≥2 cm; (number of SMTs)
	Min.	Max.	Mean	Esophagus	Stomach	Duodenum	Min.	Max.	Mean
Endoscopic treatment	17	78	51	71	28	3	0.31	4	1.12	92	10
Surgical treatment	18	78	53	10	51	2	0.67	6.2	2.88	12	50
test				46.20						83.41
value				<0.05						<0.05