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Table 3 Lymph node metastasis according to the distribution of the tracers

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

 

H & G*

H&NG*

C&G*

C&NG*

Concordance of HN and GN

Tumor depth

Tumor size (mm)

Histology

Submucosal injection

        

#1

2 (1)

ND

1(0)

22 (0)

67%

SM

44

Differentiated

#2

1 (0)

2 (1)

ND

35 (0)

33%

M

23

Differentiated

#3

3 (2)

1 (0)

2 (0)

39 (2)

60%

SS

50

Differentiated

#4

11 (3)

1 (0)

1 (0)

26 (0)

85%

SM

18

Undifferentiated

#5

ND

2 (0)

ND

16 (1)

0%

SM

25

Undifferentiated

#6

1 (1)

6 (0)

2 (0)

8 (0)

11%

SM

40

Undifferentiated

#7

7 (1)

4 (0)

5 (0)

18 (0)

44%

SM

22

Differentiated

Subserosal injection

        

#8

1 (1)

6 (0)

ND

21 (0)

14%

SM

18

Differentiated

#9

6 (3)

2 (0)

ND

48 (2)

75%

SM

11

Differentiated

#10

12 (1)

4 (0)

5 (0)

18 (0)

57%

SS

22

Differentiated

#11

6 (1)

3 (0)

3 (0)

25 (1)

50%

MP

45

Undifferentiated

#12

3 (1)

ND

8 (1)

21 (1)

27%

SS

32

Differentiated

#13

7 (4)

1 (0)

1 (0)

47 (0)

77%

SM

37

Undifferentiated

#14

3 (3)

ND

ND

11 (0)

100%

MP

45

Undifferentiated

  1. *Figures are numbers of isolated lymph nodes with numbers of metastatic nodes in parentheses
  2. ND: not detected