Relationship between celiac artery variation and number of lymph nodes dissection in gastric cancer surgery

Table 1 Comparison of clinical data between two groups of patients with celiac artery variation and without vascular variation

Clinicopathological features	Abnormal vessel group, n = 110	Normal vessel group, n = 311	χ2	P value
Gender
male	74	232	2.196	0.138
female	36	79
Agein yr
≤45	23	54	0.881	0.644
46-60	46	143
>60	41	114
Tumor stage
I	24	66	2.848	0.241
II	22	87
III	64	158
Tumor location
Proximal stomach	13	38	0.977	0.802
Gastric body	14	45
Gastric antrum	73	208
Whole stomach	10	20
Pathology classification
Adenocarcinoma	99	270	2.489	0.477
Mucous carcinoma	5	10
Signet ring cell carcinoma	2	13
Undifferentiated carcinoma	4	18
Borrmann classification
I	8	11	3.830	0.280
II	31	75
III	53	164
IV	18	61
Adjuvant chemotherapy
Yes	79	217	0.163	0.687
No	31	94
Complication
Yes	18	29	4.059	0.044
No	92	282
Lymph node clearance	20.391 ± 0.693	23.707 ± 0.587	3.651	0.000
Lymph node clearance in different stages
I	13.917 ± 0.558	20.470 ± 1.010	3.822	0.000
II	17.863 ± 0.728	23.402 ± 1.095	4.231	0.000
III	23.688 ± 0.932	25.228 ± 0.871	1.207	0.229