Table 5.

Case summary regarding the staging migration effect of PLC among 13 gastric cancer patients with positive cytology

PLC = peritoneal lavage cytology; PLN = positive lymph nodes; AJCC = American Joint Committee on Cancer; SM = invades submucosa; MP = invades muscularis propria; SE = serosa exposure or invades visceral peritoneum; SI = serosal invasion or invades adjacent structures. ^*TNM staging excluding the PLC result. ^†TNM staging including the PLC result. ^‡Immunohistochemical staining of the cytologic specimen was positive for pancytokeratin.