Gastric cancer surgery for patients with liver cirrhosis

Table 2 Clinicopathological characteristics of 25 GC patients with LC using the Child-Pugh classification

	Grade A (n = 15)	Grade B (n = 10)	P value
Cause of cirrhosis
Alcohol	9	3	0.369
Virus	5	6
HCV-related	5	4
HBV-related	0	1
Both	0	1
Unknown	1	1
Preoperative esophageal varices	5	7	0.111
Intraoperative ascites	0	6	0.001
Extent of gastric resection
Distal	7	5	0.517
Total	7	3
Wedge	1	2
Extent of lymph node dissection
D0	2	3	0.627
D1 (modified gastrectomy A)	8 (6)	4 (4)
D2	4	3
D3	1	0
Residual tumor
R0	15	10	> 0.999
R1/2	0	0
Depth of invasion
pT1	9	7	0.407
pT2	5	2
pT3	1	1
Lymph node metastasis
pN0	11	6	0.758
pN1	1	1
pN2	1	1
pN3	1	0
pNX1	1	2

¹Histological examination of a regional lymphadenectomy specimen includes 14 or less lymph nodes. Depth of invasion, lymph node metastasis, extent of lymph node dissection were recorded in accordance with the Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma. GC: Gastric cancer; LC: Liver cirrhosis; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus. R0: No residual tumor; R1: Microscopic residual tumor; R2: Macroscopic residual tumor.