Separating lymph node stations by the surgeon from the gastric cancer specimen improves the quality of nodal status evaluation

Table 2 Logistic regression analysis with the outcome (dependent variable) of retrieving at least 16 lymph nodes

	P value	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval
En bloc vs dissected	0.001	16.28	3.29–80.45
D1 vs D2 lymphadenectomy	0.077	3.02	0.89–10.23
Subtotal vs total gastrectomy	0.062	3.47	0.94–12.79
Open vs laparoscopic	0.452	0.64	0.20–2.07

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