Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Risk Factors of Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Early Gastric Cancer in the Wannan Region

14 July 2020: Clinical Research

Lin Li ^ABE* , Pengwei Liu ^CE* , Jing Wang ^D , Xiaoping Niu ^C , Chiyi He ^FG*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.923525

Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e923525

Table 3 Multivariate analysis of risk factors for LNM in 381 patients with EGC.

Variable	P-value	OR	95% CI
Tumor size	0.268	1.559	0.711–3.419
Differentiation	0.065	2.255	0.951–5.347
Depth of invasion	0.005	3.496	1.452–8.422
Vascular tumor thrombus	0.001	6.326	2.313–17.305
Neural invasion	0.001	10.945	3.291–36.405
LNM – lymph node metastasis; EGC – early gastric carcinoma; OR – odds ratio; CI – confidence intervals.