Table 2.
MVD in the gastric cancer and normal mucosa (mean ± SD)
| Variable | n | MVD | t/F | P |
| Tissue character | 7.53 | 0.000 | ||
| Normal mucosa | 38 | 36.21 ± 18.47 | ||
| Gastric cancer | 92 | 65.49 ± 20.64 | ||
| Histologic type | 3.68 | 0.003 | ||
| Papillary adenocarcinoma | 2 | 39.50 ± 7.78 | ||
| Well-differentiated adenocarcinoma | 9 | 42.56 ± 20.35 | ||
| Moderately-differentiated adenocarcinoma | 28 | 56.79 ± 20.97 | ||
| Poor-differentiated adenocarcinoma | 31 | 72.65 ± 20.49 | ||
| Mucin adenocarcinom | 14 | 63.64 ± 23.02 | ||
| Signet-ring cell carcinoma | 5 | 74.40 ± 33.56 | ||
| Undifferentiated carcinoma | 3 | 44.67 ± 20.23 | ||
| Histologic type | 4.83 | 0.000 | ||
| Moderately or well-differentiated | 39 | 54.68 ± 19.78 | ||
| Poorly or undifferentiated | 53 | 73.88 ± 17.25 | ||
| Metastasis | 4.214 | 0.043 | ||
| Negative | 26 | 54.08 ± 24.42 | ||
| Positive | 66 | 65.08 ± 22.63 | ||
| Organ metastasis | 1.14 | 0.355 | ||
| Lymph nodes metastasis | 66 | 65.08 ± 22.63 | ||
| Liver metastasis | 4 | 82.00 ± 10.61 | ||
| Ovary metastasis | 1 | 100 | ||
| Peritoneal metastasis | 9 | 68.44 ± 26.16 | ||
| Depth of invasion | 0.583 | 0.627 | ||
| Muscle invasion | 4 | 68.00 ± 19.13 | ||
| Subserosa invasion | 63 | 60.33 ± 24.28 | ||
| Serosa exposure invasion | 24 | 65.96 ± 22.68 | ||
| Borrman type | 0.459 | 0.634 | ||
| Borrman II | 7 | 55.71 ± 17.17 | ||
| Borrman III | 79 | 62.92 ± 23.89 | ||
| Borrman IV | 6 | 61.97 ± 23.55 |