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Table 3 Relationship between clinicopathological characteristics and lymph node metastasis in differentiated early gastric cancer

From: Clinicopathological significance of primitive phenotypes in early gastric cancer with differentiated histology

 

LNM

HR

95% CI

P value

present

n = 40

absent

n = 262

Sex

    

0.7991

 Female

8

48

1

  

 Male

32

214

0.897

0.389–2.069

 

Age

    

0.453

  < 60

11

58

1

  

  ≥ 60

29

204

0.750

0.353–1.591

 

Location

    

0.001

 Upper

5

120

1

  

 Middle

14

48

7.000

2.390–20.501

 

 Lower

21

94

5.362

1.949–14.750

 

Ulcer

    

0.275

 Absent

24

180

1

  

 Present

16

82

1.463

0.738–2.901

 

Size

    

0.008

  ≤ 3

27

223

1

  

  > 3

13

39

2.753

1.308–5.793

 

Depth

    

< 0.001

 T1a

4

115

1

  

 SM1

11

37

8.547

2.567–28.459

 

 SM2

25

110

6.534

2.202–19.383

 

Vessel invasion

    

< 0.001

 Absent

12

244

1

  

 Present

28

18

31.630

13.812–72.431

 

Primitive phenotype

    

< 0.001

 Absent

24

250

1

  

 Present

16

12

13.889

5.891–33.746