Table 1.

Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Rectal NETs

Variables	All patients (n=72)
Men, n (%)	43 (59.7)
Age (yr), mean (SD)	49 (13.0)
Tumor location (cm)a), mean (SD)	5.8 (2.4)
Endoscopically estimated size (mm), mean (SD)	6.8 (2.8)
Histologically measured size (mm), mean (SD)	6.2 (2.8)
<10 mm, n (%)	63 (87.5)
≥10 mm, n (%)	9 (12.5)
Grade of NETs, n (%)
Grade 1	66 (91.7)
Grade 2	6 (8.3)

NET, neuroendocrine tumor; SD, standard deviation.

^a)Measured from the anal verge.