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 4 Univariate analysis of risk factors for LNM in EGC with submucosal invasion.

Characteristic	LNM (+)	LNM (−)	χ2	P-value
Sex	n=43	n=141	0.03	0.86
Male	35	113
Female	8	28
Age (year)			0.47	0.79
	5	12
45–65	19	61
>65	19	68
Tumor location			3.26	0.20
Proximal stomach	5	33
Middle stomach	4	16
Distal stomach	34	92
Tumor size (cm)			0.007	0.93
	11	37
≥2	32	104
Endoscopic types			5.35	0.07
Elevated	6	13
Flat	4	36
Depressed	33	92
Ulcer findings			5.27	0.02
Absence	21	96
6Presence	22	45
Differentiation			7.62	0.001
Differentiated	7	76
Undifferentiated	36	65
Vascular tumor thrombus			11.54	0.001
Absence	33	133
Presence	10	8
Neural invasion			19.30
Absence	33	138
Presence	10	3
LNM – lymph node metastasis; EGC – early gastric carcinoma; OR – odds ratio; CI – confidence intervals.