Research Article
Clinical Usefulness of the VS Classification System Using Magnifying Endoscopy with Blue Laser Imaging for Early Gastric Cancer
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of the patients (
) and the early gastric cancers (
).
| | Characteristic | |
| | Sex ratio (male/female) | 280/106 | | Age, years, mean (SD) | 70.3 (10.4) | | Tumor location, n (%) | | | Upper | 74 (18) | | Middle | 138 (33) | | Lower | 205 (49) | | Macroscopic type, n (%) | | | 0-I, 0–IIa | 142 (34) | | 0–IIb, 0–IIc | 275 (66) | | Tumor size, mm, mean (SD) | 18.6 (13.2) | | Histological type, n (%) | | | Differentiated | 383 (92) | | Undifferentiated | 34 (8) | | Depth, n (%) | | | T1a | 377 (90) | | T1b | 40 (10) | | Helicobacter pylori | | | Eradicated, n (%) | 79 (19) | | Noneradicated, n (%) | 338 (81) |
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SD: standard deviation.
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