Clinical Study
Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Treatment of Patients Aged 75 Years and over with Esophageal Cancer
Table 2
Histological type and tumor location.
| | ≥75 years | <75 years | P value |
| Histological type | | | n.s. | Squamous cell carcinoma | 13 (100%) | 46 (94%) | | Adenocarcinoma | 0 (0%) | 3 (6%) | | Tumor location | | | n.s. | Cervical | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | | Upper thoracic | 3 (23%) | 5 (10%) | | Mid-thoracic | 9 (69%) | 33 (67%) | | Lower thoracic | 1 (8%) | 8 (16%) | | Esophagogastric junction | 0 (0%) | 3 (6%) | |
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n.s.: not significant.
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