Subclassification scheme for adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction and prognostic analysis based on clinicopathological features

Table 3 Number of patients with positive nodes

Variable	Variable	Type E	Type Eg	Type Ge	P value
Overall		13/22	24/31	43/100	0.003a
The rate of lymph node metastasis	≤ 15%	2	11	27	0.010a
	> 15%	11	13	16
Pathological depth of tumor invasion	T1-2	4	3	4	0.141
	T3-4	9	21	39
Pathological depth of tumor invasion	T1	0/1	0/1	1/23	0.956
	T2	4/5	1/3	3/15	0.051
	T3		2/3	2/4	0.659
	T4	9/16	21/24	37/58	0.058
Location of lymph node	No. 1	6	19	19	0.017a
	No. 2	0	9	18	0.018a
	No. 3	2	15	26	0.010a
	No. 4	1	6	9	0.443
	No. 5	0	5	4	0.134
	No. 6	0	1	2	0.735
	No. 7	12	20	27	0.047a
	No. 8	0	2	4	0.527
	No. 9	1	4	9	0.541
	No. 10	0	0	1	0.647
	No. 11	0	4	8	0.249
	No. 20	2	1	0	0.038a
	No. 21	1	0	0	0.074

^aP < 0.05.