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Table 1 Demographics of patients between non-LNM and LNM groups

From: Risk factors for lymph node metastasis in gastric neuroendocrine tumor: a retrospective study

 

Non-LNM

(n = 37)

LNM

(n = 82)

P-value

Male (n, %)

24 (64.9%)

60 (83.2%)

0.357

Age (median ± SD)

61.22 ± 10.27

66.09 ± 9.16

0.011*

Hypertension (n, %)

11 (31.4%)

23 (28.8%)

0.772

Diabetes (n, %)

2 (5.7%)

8 (10.0%)

0.696

Other background disease (n, %)

2 (5.9%)

6 (7.7%)

0.732

Past abdominal surgery (n, %)

8 (22.9%)

21 (26.2%)

0.700

Chief complaint

  

0.410

 Health examination

2 (5.7%)

4 (5.0%)

 Pain

20 (57.1%)

35 (43.8%)

 Melena/ hematemesis

4 (11.4%)

13 (16.2%)

 Abdominal discomfort

9 (25.7%)

22 (27.5%)

  1. *The asterisk indicates statistical significance