Table 1.

Clinical and pathological characteristics of patients with early gastric carcinoma (n = 118)

Characteristic	n
All patients	118
Gender
Male/Female	71/47
Age (yr)
Median (Range)	53.2 (24-76)
Tumor site
Cardia	21
Fundus/body	43
Antrum	54
Histological type
Differentiated	56
Undifferentiated	62
Lymph node metastasis
Positive	67
Negative	51
pTNM stage
I-II	52
III-IV	66
Depth wall penetration
T1-T2	48
T3-T4	70