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Table 5 Correspondence between preoperative CT and EUS results and pathological LNM

From: Difficulty of predicting the presence of lymph node metastases in patients with clinical early stage gastric cancer: a case control study

 

LNM (−)

LNM (+)

p-value

CT

Tumor detectability

Undetectable

776 (80.2 %)

56 (75.7 %)

0.367

Detectable

192 (19.8 %)

18 (24.3 %)

 

Presence of LNM

Unsuspected

935 (96.6 %)

65 (87.8 %)

0.002

Suspected

33 (3.4 %)

9 (12.2 %)

 

EUSa

Tumor depth

Mucosa

151 (33.0 %)

10 (30.3 %)

0.298

Submucosa

283 (61.8 %)

20 (60.6 %)

 

Proper muscle

22 (4.8 %)

2 (6.1 %)

 

Serosa exposure

2 (0.4 %)

1 (3.0 %)

 

Presence of LNM

Unsuspected

442 (96.5 %)

30 (90.9 %)

0.128

Suspected

16 (3.5 %)

3 (9.1 %)

 
  1. aData from 491 patients were available
  2. LNM lymph node metastasis, CT computed tomography, EUS endoscopic ultrasonography
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