Gastric Cancer
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2004.
World J Gastroenterol. Dec 1, 2004; 10(23): 3405-3408
Published online Dec 1, 2004. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i23.3405
Table 2 Clinical data of the 1 975 patients with surgical resec-tion of the tumor
CharacteristicsNumberPercentage (%)
Type of resection
Radical resection108454.9
Palliative resection89145.1
Depth of invasion (T)
Mucosa/submucosa (PT1)1457.3
Muscularis (PT2)34717.6
Serosa (PT3)97849.5
Serosa and contiguous structure (PT4)50525.6
Lymph node involvement (N)
N020710.5
N134317.4
N293647.4
N348924.7
Stage
IA1256.3
IB1316.6
II25112.7
IIIA40420.5
IIIB44222.4
IV62231.5
Type of nodal dissection (radical resection)
D115914.7
D2 / D2+84678.0
D3797.3