Table 3.

Characteristics of the minimal EUS-suspected GISTs followed up to 1 year

Characterisitics	Stable disease group (n = 58)	Progress disease group (n = 11)	P
Age	57.6 ± 12.3	67.9 ± 11.2	0.012
Gender, n (%)			0.053
Male	9 (17.6%)	8 (44.4%)
Female	42 (82.4%)	10 (55.6%)
Tumor location, n (%)
Cardia	7 (12.1%)	0	0.587
Fundus	39 (67.2%)	4 (36.4%)	0.087
Body	11 (19.0%)	7 (63.6%)	0.005
Antrum	1 (1.7%)	0	1.000
Initial diameter (mm)	8.07 ± 3.11	12.55 ± 4.16	0.000
Initial EUS, n (%)			0.509
Low risk	55 (94.8%)	10 (90.9%)
High risk	3 (5.2%)	1 (9.1%)
F/u EUS, n (%)			0.001
Low risk	53 (91.4%)	6 (54.5%)
High risk	5 (8.6%)	5 (45.5%)
Growth rate per year (%)	−1.2 ± 9.7	50.7 ± 33.6	0.000