Table 1 Demographic data and clinical and pathological characteristics of patients
From: Clinical implications of metastatic lymph node ratio in gastric cancer
Characteristics | Number of cases | |
|---|---|---|
Sex | Male | 153 |
Female | 71 | |
Age (years old) | ≤ 60 | 114 |
> 60 | 110 | |
Tumor number | Single | 208 |
Multitude | 16 | |
Location of tumor | U (upper third stomach) | 9 |
M (middle third stomach) | 41 | |
L (lower third stomach) | 174 | |
Maximum tumor diameter (cm) | ≤ 2 | 28 |
2–4 | 85 | |
> 4 | 111 | |
pT category | pT1 | 34 |
pT2 | 128 | |
pT3 | 59 | |
pT4 | 3 | |
Histological type | G1 (well differentiated) | 41 |
G2 (moderately differentiated) | 46 | |
G3 (poor differentiated) | 137 | |
Histological growth pattern | ||
Expanding type | 115 | |
Infiltrative type | 109 | |
Lymphatic vessel infiltrate | Present | 59 |
Absent | 165 | |
pN category | pN0 | 55 |
pN1 | 87 | |
pN2 | 49 | |
pN3 | 33 | |
Metastatic node ratio (%) | 0 | 55 |
1–19 | 72 | |
20–39 | 30 | |
40–59 | 26 | |
60–79 | 20 | |
80–100 | 21 | |