Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics
| Group A n (%) |
Group B n (%) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 0.967 | ||
| Male | 14 (48.3) | 20 (48.9) | |
| Female | 15 (51.7) | 21 (51.1) | |
| Age | 0.290 | ||
| ≦60 | 14 (48.3) | 14 (34.1) | |
| >60 | 15 (51.7) | 27 (65.9) | |
| Histological type of primary lesion | 0.810 | ||
| Intestinal | 5 (17.2) | 8 (19.5) | |
| Diffuse | 24 (82.8) | 33 (80.5) | |
| Scirrhous stroma of primary lesion | 0.100 | ||
| Yes | 6 (20.7) | 3 ( 7.3) | |
| No | 23 (79.3) | 38 (92.7) | |
| Depth of primary lesion | 0.796 | ||
| SS | 7 (24.1) | 10 (24.4) | |
| SE or SI | 22 (75.9) | 31 (75.6) | |
| Gastrectomy | 0.352 | ||
| Yes | 13 (44.8) | 23 (56.0) | |
| No | 16 (55.2) | 18 (44.0) | |
| Adjuvant therapy before taking samples | – | ||
| Yes | 0 ( 0) | 0 ( 0) | |
| No | 29 (100) | 41 (100) |
Group A obstructive symptoms (+), Group B obstructive symptoms (−), SE tumor penetration of serosa, SI tumor invasion of adjacent structure, SS subserosa