Table 5.

Literalure summary of EUS studies on gastric cancer

	Author	Period	Number of patients	Accuracy (%)
				T stage	N stage
1	Botet et al.[11] (USA)	1986–1988	50	92	78
2	Akahoshi et al.[12] (Japan)	1986–1990	74	81.1	50
3	Ziegler et al.[10] (Germany)	1986–1990	108	86	74
4	Lightdale[13] (USA)	1989–1991	525	81	76
5	Dittler et al[14] (Germany)	1989–1992	264	83	66
6	Francois et al.[15] (France)	1991–1993	35	79	79
7	Yanai et al.[16] (Japan)	1990–1995	104	64.8	Early stage
8	Meining et al.[17] (Germany)	1992–1996	33	66	Not reported
9	Yanai et al.[18] (Japan)	1996–1997	52	71	Early stage
10	Guo et al.[19] (China)	1996–1997	62	83.9	79
11	Hunerbein et al.[20] (Germany)	19971	30	82	80
12	Habermann et al.[21] (Germany)	1998–2000	51	86	90
13	Hizawa et al.[22] (Japan)	1997–2002	234	78	Early stage
14	Xi et al.[23] (China)	20021	32	80	68.6
15	Shimoyama et al.[24] (Japan)	1996–2003	45	71	80
16	Bhandari et al.[9] (Korea)	2003	63	87.5	79.1

¹Year of article publication/duration of study not reported.