Staging laparoscopy improves treatment decision-making for advanced gastric cancer

Table 6 Correlation between clinicopathologic features determined by clinical staging and peritoneal metastasis or positive cytology (multivariate analysis)

Variables	P value	Odd ratio	95%CI
Tumor size (mm)
< 40		1.000
≥ 40	0.015	2.123	1.160-3.887
fT stage	< 0.001
T2/3		1.000
T4a	0.215	1.714	0.731-4.020
T4b	< 0.001	11.54	4.942-26.947
Borrmann type	< 0.001
Type I or II		1.000
Type III	< 0.001	6.291	3.524-11.231
Type IV	< 0.001	5.844	2.457-13.904