• Department of Gastroenterology, the Sixth People's Hospital of Chengdu City, Chengdu, Sichuan 610051, P. R. China;
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Objective To investigate the relationship between clinicopathological characteristics and invasion depth of early gastric cancer (EGC), in order to put forward suitable regimens for EGC with different clinicopathological characteristics. Methods The clinicopathological data of 18 patients with EGC diagnosed from January 2008 to January 2013 were retrospectively analyzed. Clinicopathologic variables such as age, gender, tumor size and location, Helicobacter pylori infection, melaena, macroscopic type, and histopathological type were investigated by using chi-square test for their possible relationship with the depth of invasion. Results Lymph node metastasis was more common in patients with submucous cancer (3/9, 33.3%) than in those with mucous cancer (0/9, 0%). Submucosal invasion was found in 77.8% (7/9) of undifferentiated adenocarcinoma cases, whereas only 22.2% (2/9) of differentiated adenocarcinoma had submucosal invasion. TypeⅢ EGC had a significant association with submucosal invasion (P<0.05). Conclusion Endoscopic treatment is unsuitable for patients with Type Ⅲ EGC.

Citation: JIANGZhi-ling, DENGGui-ying. Relationship between Clinicopathological Characteristics and Invasion Depth of Early Gastric Cancer. West China Medical Journal, 2014, 29(11): 2050-2054. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.20140619 Copy

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