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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed as non-curative endoscopic resection with a potential risk of LNM

From: Management of early gastric cancer that meet the indication for radical lymph node dissection following endoscopic resection: a retrospective cohort analysis

Factors

All

(n = 150)

Surgery

(n = 73)

Follow-up

(n = 77)

p Value

Age

71.2

68.8

73.4

<0.001*

Sex

M:F

128:22

66:7

62:15

0.11

Concomitant disease

22 (14.7%)

9 (12.3%)

13 (16.9%)

0.49

 Other cancer

11

5

6

 

 Hematologic disease

3

2

1

 

 Cardiovascular disease

3

2

1

 

 Liver cirrhosis

5

0

5

 

Positive lymphatic-vascular involvement

85 (56.7%)

54 (74.0%)

31 (40.3%)

<0.001*

Undifferenciated type

19 (12.7%)

8 (11.0%)

11 (14.3%)

0.63

Deep submucosal invasion (≥ sm2)

96 64.0%)

56 (76.7%)

40 (51.9%)

0.0021*

Minute submucosal cancer (sm1 ≥ 30 mm in size)

9 (6.0%)

4 (5.5%)

5 (6.5%)

1.00

VM positive or unclear

35 (23.3%)

12 (16.4%)

23 (29.9%)

0.056

HM positive or unclear

20 (13.3%)

6 (8.2%)

14 (18.2%)

0.093

  1. The Fisher exact test or the χ2 test was used for the analyses
  2. VM vertical margin, HM Hiatal margin, LNM lymph node metastasis
  3. Statistical significance defined as * p < 0.05