Table 2.
Surgical and pathological characteristics according to treatment category
| Variable | Gastrectomy with adjuvant chemotherapy n = 10 |
Palliative gastrectomy alone n = 11 |
Conversion gastrectomy n = 5 |
Palliative gastrectomy after induction chemotherapy n = 5 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical procedure | TG | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| DG | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lymphadenectomy | D2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Limited | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | |
| Combined resection |
Spleen Pancreas |
2 |
3 2 |
1 | - |
| Tumor diameter (mm) | 77.5 (40–175) | 122 (20–235) | 133 (25–150) | 97 (50–130) | |
| Operating time (min) | 318.5 (200–493) | 402 (148–614) | 338 (272–429) | 346 (138–400) | |
| Blood loss (ml) | 356 (113–689) | 494.5 (149–1897) | 492 (269–770) | 545 (215–820) | |
| p-Depth of invasion | SS | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| SE | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | |
| SI | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| p-Lymph node metastasis | N0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| N1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| N2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| N3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 3 | |
DG distal gastrectomy, SE invasion of serosa, SI invasion of adjacent structures, SS invasion of subserosa, TG total gastrectomy