Table 11.

Characteristics of patients whose disease recurred

Sex/age	Op.	Loc.	Size(cm)	N	T	LN	Musshoff stage	Site of recurrence	DFS (mo)	Survival	OS (mo)
F/80	ST	LB	6x3	1	PM	8/26	IIe2	abdominal LN	0.4	Dead1	10.1
M/34	T	MB	8x2.5	1	PM	12/21	IIe1	abdominal LN,	6.6	Dead	9.1
								bone marrow
M/34	ST	MB	2.2x3	1	SS	0/60	Ie2	remnant stomach	7.6	Alive	57.2
F/59	ST	LB	4x3.5	1	SM	0/19	Ie1	paraaortic LN	10.4	Alive	13.4
M/85	ST	MB & LB	4x3	2	PM	0/64	Ie2	chest	18.2	Dead2	42.0
F/55	T	HB	13x10	1	colon,	0/11	Ie2	abdominal LN	26.3	Dead	37.4
					pancreas
M/67	ST	LB	10x8	1	SS	16/53	IIe1	cervical LN	26.8	Dead3	31.6
M/70	ST	MB	3x2	2	SM	5/19	IIe1	unknown3	70.4	Dead	70.6
			1.5x0.8

Op.: operation method, (ST: subtotal gastrectomy, T: total gastrectomy), Loc: location (LB: lower body, MB: midbody, HB: high body), T: T-stage (SM: submucosa, PM: proper muscle, SS: subserosa), LN: lymph nodes(positive nodes/resected nodes), DFS: disease free survival, OS: overall survival,

¹: pneumonia,

²: medullary infarct,

³: diagnosed in other hospital. Recurred site is uncertain.