Table 1.
Characteristics of patients (n=31)
| Characteristics | Number of (%) patients |
| Age (yr) | |
| Median | 51.9 |
| Range | 24-70 |
| Sex | |
| Male | 21 (67.8) |
| Female | 10 (32.2) |
| Type of operation | |
| Radical subtotal gastrectomy | 16 (51.6) |
| Radical total gastrectomy | 15(48.4) |
| Location | |
| Antrum | 17 (54.8) |
| Corpus | 9 (29.0) |
| Cardia | 5 (16.1) |
| Lauren classification | |
| Diffuse | 20 (64.5) |
| Intestinal | 6 (19.4) |
| Mixed | 5 (16.1) |
| Borrmann type | |
| I | 1 (3.2) |
| II | 4 (12.9) |
| III | 18 (58.1) |
| IV | 8 (25.8) |
| Stage | |
| IIIA | 11 (35.5) |
| T2bN2 | 2 (6.5) |
| T3N1 | 9 (29.0) |
| IIIB | 14 (45.2) |
| T3N2 | 14 (45.2) |
| IV (M0) | 6 (19.4) |
| T4N2 | 1 (3.2) |
| T2bN3 | 1 (3.2) |
| T3N3 | 4 (13.0) |
| Number of positive nodes | |
| Median | 9 |
| Range | 1-49 |