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Table 1 Correlations between lymph node metastasis and clinicopathological features

From: A nomogram for predicting the likelihood of lymph node metastasis in early gastric patients

Clinicopathological features

Lymph node metastasis

p

Negative (n = 539)

Positive (n = 58)

Gender

  

0.901

 Male

376 (90.4 %)

40 (9.6 %)

 

 Female

163 (90.1 %)

18 (9.9 %)

 

Age (year)

  

0.024

 <50

108 (85.0 %)

19 (15.0 %)

 

 ≥50

431 (91.7 %)

39 (8.3 %)

 

Tumor location

  

0.179

 Upper 1/3

89 (94.7 %)

5 (5.3 %)

 

 Middle 1/3

130 (92.9 %)

12 (8.5 %)

 

 Low 1/3

320 (87.9 %)

41 (11.4 %)

 

Macroscopic type

  

<0.001

 I/II

374 (94.4 %)

22 (5.6 %)

 

 III/Mixed

165 (82.1 %)

36 (17.9 %)

 

Size (cm)

   

 <2.0

274 (93.8 %)

18 (6.2 %)

0.004

 ≥2.0

265 (86.9 %)

40 (13.1 %)

 

 <1.5

203 (96.7 %)

7 (3.3 %)

<0.001

 ≥1.5

336 (86.8 %)

51 (13.2 %)

 

Histology

  

0.001

 Adenocarcinoma

403 (92.6 %)

32 (7.4 %)

 

 Other typesa

136 (84.0 %)

26 (16.0 %)

 

Differentiation

  

<0.001

 Differentiated

245 (96.1 %)

10 (3.9 %)

 

 Undifferentiated

294 (86.0 %)

48 (14.0 %)

 

Ulcer

  

<0.001

 Absent

463 (92.4 %)

38 (7.6 %)

 

 Present

76 (79.2 %)

20 (20.8 %)

 

Lymphovascular invasion

  

<0.001

 Absent

510 (95.0 %)

27 (5.0 %)

 

 Present

29 (48.3 %)

31 (51.7 %)

 

Depth of invasion

  

<0.001

 Mucosa

325 (97.0 %)

10 (3.0 %)

 

 Submucosa

214 (81.7 %)

48 (18.3 %)

 
  1. Other typesa: signet-ring cell carcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, etc