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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 28, 2009; 15(40): 5086-5090
Published online Oct 28, 2009. doi: 10.3748/wjg.15.5086
Published online Oct 28, 2009. doi: 10.3748/wjg.15.5086
Table 1 Patients’ characteristics (n = 54)
| No. of patients | n (%) |
| Gender | |
| Male/female | 32 (59.3)/22 (40.7) |
| Age (yr) | |
| Median (range) | 48 (28-78) |
| ≥ 60/< 60 | 15 (27.8)/39 (72.2) |
| Initial stage | |
| I-II | 2 (3.7) |
| III | 2 (3.7) |
| IV | 47 (87.0) |
| Not available | 3 (5.6) |
| Operation | |
| Curative | 17 (31.5) |
| Palliative | 15 (27.8) |
| Inoperable | 18 (33.3) |
| Not available | 4 (7.5) |
| Initial endoscopic finding (n = 47) | |
| Site | |
| Cardia | 1 (1.9) |
| Fundus | 1 (1.9) |
| Body | 20 (37.0) |
| Antrum, pylorus | 16 (29.7) |
| Diffuse whole stomach | 9 (19.1) |
| Borrmann type (n = 45) | |
| Early gastric cancer | 2 (4.4) |
| I (polypoid) | 1 (2.2) |
| II (ulcerative) | 4 (8.9) |
| III (ucero-infiltrative) | 23 (51.2) |
| IV (diffuse infiltrative) | 15 (33.3) |
| Differentiation (n = 47) | |
| Moderate | 3 (6.4) |
| Poor | 25 (53.2) |
| Poor with signet ring cell | 19 (40.4) |
- Citation: Oh SY, Lee SJ, Lee J, Lee S, Kim SH, Kwon HC, Lee GW, Kang JH, Hwang IG, Jang JS, Lim HY, Park YS, Kang WK, Kim HJ. Gastric leptomeningeal carcinomatosis: Multi-center retrospective analysis of 54 cases. World J Gastroenterol 2009; 15(40): 5086-5090
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v15/i40/5086.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.15.5086