Table 1 Nodal metastasis, including nicrometastasis/ITC and clinical and/or pathological findings
| Patients with lymph node metastasis | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| positive(15) | negative(31) | p value | |
| Age | |||
| 60< | 6 | 16 | |
| <59 | 9 | 15 | 0.46 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 11 | 22 | |
| Female | 4 | 9 | 0.87 |
| Tumor size (cm) | |||
| 3.0< | 11 | 19 | |
| 2.9> | 4 | 12 | 0.42 |
| Macroscopic type | |||
| elevated | 2 | 1 | |
| depressed | 13 | 30 | 0.19 |
| Depth of invasion | |||
| sm1 | 3 | 18 | |
| sm2,3 | 12 | 13 | 0.02 |
| Histological type | |||
| differentiated | 8 | 14 | |
| undifferentiated | 7 | 17 | 0.6 |
| Lymphatic involvement | |||
| positive | 4 | 2 | |
| negative | 11 | 29 | 0.05 |
| Venous involvement | |||
| positive | 2 | 2 | |
| negative | 13 | 29 | 0.44 |