Table 2. Comparison of Clinicopathological Features Between gastric cancer patients with microscopic peritoneal carcinomatosis (group 1) and gastric cancer with macroscopic peritoneal carcinomatosis (group 3).

Variables	Group 1	Group 3	P
Sex (M/F)	85/36	74/44	0.217
Age (≥60/<60)	70/51	49/69	0.012
Histology type (P/M/W)*	91/28/2	97/18/3	0.263
Tumor size (≥5/<5)	71/50	69/49	0.975
Borrmann type IV (yes/no)	11/110	19/99	0.102
Serosal invasion (yes/no)	114/7	103/15	0.064
Tumor location (C/M/A and two or more)#	37/31/45/8	16/35/45/22	0.002

^*Poorly differentiated/moderately differentiated/well differentiated.

^#Corpus/middle/antrum.