Table 4.

Characteristics of the patients with EGC recurrence

Case	Age (years)	Sex	Location	Macroscopic type	Ulceration	Depth	Tumor size (mm)	Histology	LVI	LNM	Treatment	Time to recurrence (months)	Location of recurrence	Outcome
1	75	M	Lower	Ila	present	sm2	12	tub1 > tub2 > pap	present	absent	ESD and Gastrectomy	22.1	Liver, LN	Dead
2	80	M	Upper	I	absent	sm2	30	pap > tub1	absent	absent	ESD	44.3	Liver, LN	Dead
3	73	M	Upper	lla	absent	sm1	20	pap > por2	present	present	Gastrectomy	29.7	Liver	Dead

Abbrevistions: EGC early gastric cancer, LVI lymphovascular invasion, LNM lymph node metastasis, sm1 submucosa, < 500 μm, sm2 submucosa, ≥500 μm, tub1 well differentiated adenocarcinoma, tub2 moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma, pap papillary adenocarcinoma, ESD endoscopic submucosal dissection