Clinicopathological analysis of patients with gastric cancer in 1200 cases

Table 2 Comparison of depth of infiltration with age, diameter, hemoglobin, and lymphatic metastasis rate (^-x±s_x)

Depth of invasion	N (1200)	Age (yrs)	Diameter (cm)	Hemoglobin(g/L)	Lymphatic metastasis rate (%)
pT1(m)	114	51.6 ± 1.2	2.3 ± 0.4	12.1 ± 0.3	3.2 ± 0.8
pT1(ms)	65	55.7 ± 1.5*	2.5 ± 0.7	11.3 ± 0.4*	4.1 ± 1.3
pT2	91	56.8 ± 1.4*	3.1 ± 0.3	11.2 ± 0.1*	9.8 ± 1.6*
pT3	95	57.1 ± 1.2*	4.2 ± 0.6*	11.4 ± 0.2*	20.4 ± 2.9*
pT4	835	56.9 ± 0.3*	5.6 ± 0.1*	11.2 ± 0.1*	37.1 ± 1.2*
P		< 0.003	< 0.0001	< 0.001	< 0.0001

*Compared with pT1(m).