Research Article
Clinical Significance of Lymph Node Micrometastasis in pN0 Gastric Cancer Patients
Table 4
Multivariate analysis of the prognostic factors associated with the survival.
| Variables | SE | Wald | HR | 95% CI | value |
| Depth of tumor invasion | 0.149 | 5.522 | 1.418 | 1.060-1.897 | 0.019 | Level 2 station LNMM | 0.286 | 10.082 | 2.476 | 1.415-4.334 | 0.001 | Tumor size | 0.230 | 8.779 | 1.978 | 1.260-3.106 | 0.003 | TNM staging | 0.150 | 4.473 | 1.375 | 1.024-1.846 | 0.034 | Lauren classification | 0.472 | 11.017 | 0.209 | 1.083-1.527 | 0.001 | Lymphatic infiltration | 0.272 | 15.219 | 2.893 | 1.697-4.934 | 0.000 |
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LNMM: lymph node micrometastasis; TNM: tumor node metastasis; HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval; SE: standard error.
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