Research Article
The Characteristics, Prognosis, and Risk Factors of Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Gastric Cancer
Table 2
Endoscopic features of the included patients.
| | Total () | LNM (−) () (%) | LNM (+) () (%) | value |
| | Location | | | | <0.001 | | Cardia | 217 (21.6%) | 204 (23.2%) | 13 (10.6%) | | | Angle | 124 (12.4%) | 104 (11.8%) | 20 (16.3%) | | | Corpora | 207 (20.6%) | 176 (20.0%) | 34 (27.6%) | | | Fundus | 10 (0.1%) | 8 (0.9%) | 2 (1.6%) | | | Antrum | 446 (44.4%) | 389 (44.2%) | 54 (43.9%) | | | Part of stomach | | | | 0.002 | | Upper part of stomach | 240 (23.9%) | 224 (25.4%) | 16 (13.0%) | | | Lower part of stomach | 764 (76.1%) | 657 (74.6%) | 107 (87.0%) | | | Lesion size (mm) | 19.4 ± 11.7 | 19.0 ± 11.5 | 23.0 ± 11.9 | <0.001 | | Small (<2 mm) | 506 (50.4%) | 464 (52.7%) | 42 (34.1%) | | | Middle (2-3 mm) | 269 (26.8%) | 234 (26.6) | 35 (28.5%) | | | Large (≧3 mm) | 229 (22.8%) | 183 (20.7%) | 46 (37.4%) | | | Macroscopic | | | | 0.014 | | Elevated (I + IIa) | 93 (9.3%) | 80 (9.1%) | 13 (10.6%) | | | Flat (IIb) | 241 (24.0%) | 219 (24.9%) | 22 (17.9%) | | | Depressed (IIc + III) | 670 (66.7%) | 582 (66.0%) | 88 (71.5%) | |
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