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World J Gastroenterol. May 28, 2014; 20(20): 6322-6328
Published online May 28, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i20.6322
Published online May 28, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i20.6322
Table 5 Clinicopathologic characteristics associated with overestimation of invasion depth by endoscopic ultrasonography in superficial esophageal carcinoma
| Characteristics | No. of overestimated lesions | Pvalue |
| Location | 0.074 | |
| Upper esophagus | 2/18 | |
| Mid-esophagus | 4/72 | |
| Lower esophagus | 5/24 | |
| Histologic type | 0.464 | |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 10/108 | |
| Adenocarcinoma | 1/3 | |
| Neuroendocrine carcinoma | 0/3 | |
| Differentiation degree | 0.805 | |
| Well differentiated | 4/43 | |
| Moderately differentiated | 7/61 | |
| Poorly differentiated | 0/10 | |
| Macroscopic shape | 0.491 | |
| Elevated | 7/62 | |
| Flat | 2/38 | |
| Depressed | 2/14 | |
| Circumferential spread | 0.266 | |
| < 1/4 | 7/44 | |
| 1/4-2/4 | 2/35 | |
| 2/4-3/4 | 0/16 | |
| ≥ 3/4 | 2/19 | |
| Tumor size (cm) | 0.513 | |
| < 3 | 6/74 | |
| ≥ 3 | 5/40 |
- Citation: Jung JI, Kim GH, I H, Park DY, Kim TK, Cho YH, Sung YW, Choi MK, Lee BE, Song GA. Clinicopathologic factors influencing the accuracy of EUS for superficial esophageal carcinoma. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20(20): 6322-6328
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v20/i20/6322.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v20.i20.6322