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Table 2 Numbers and concordance of hot and green nodes

From: How should tracers be injected to detect for sentinel nodes in gastric cancer – submucosally from inside or subserosally from outside of the stomach?

 

Submucosal injection

Subserosal injection

p value

H & G*

4 ± 3 (4 ± 3)

4 ± 3 (4 ± 2)

p = 0.78 (0.91)

H & NG*

2 ± 3 (2 ± 3)

1 ± 2 (1 ± 2)

p = 0.45 (0.57)

C & G*

2 ± 2 (3 ± 3)

3 ± 4 (2 ± 4)

p = 0.95 (0.37)

Concordance of HN and GN

45 ± 27% (45 ± 27%)

48 ± 30% (48 ± 30%)

p = 0.42 (0.33)

GNs median, range*

5, 0–16 (5, 0–16)

6, 1–17 (6, 1–17)

p = 0.55 (0.81)

N2 distribution rate≦

24% (21%)

30% (25%)

p = 0.62 (1)

  1. Mean ± SD
  2. H & G: hot and green nodes. H & NG: hot and non-green nodes. C & G: cold and green nodes. GNs: green nodes.
  3. *Figures are numbers of hot and/or green nodes detected.
  4. Data for the patients with T1 tumors are shown in parentheses
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Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research

ISSN: 1756-9966

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