Distribution of solitary lymph nodes in primary gastric cancer: A retrospective study and clinical implications

Table 1 Distribution of metastatic lymph nodes (cases)

	L tumors			M tumors			U tumors
	SN1	SSN2	P value	SN1	SSN2	P value	SN1	SSN2	P value
No.1	2	0	-3	2	2	NS	3	3	NS
No.2	1	0	-	0	0	-	1	5	NS
No.3	13	11	NS4	10	1	NS	1	6	NS
No.4	4	9	NS	5	1	NS	0	2	NS
No.5	4	3	NS	1	1	-	0	0	-
No.6	19	21	NS	1	2	NS	0	3	NS
No.7	4	5	NS	6	3	NS	1	1	-
No.8	3	1	-	1	0	-	1	0	-
No.9	1	0	-	0	1	-	0	1	-
No.10	0	0	-	2	0	-	0	1	-
No.11	1	0	-	0	0	-	0	1	-
No.12	0	0	-	0	1	-	0	0	-
TOTAL	52	50	-	28	12		8	23

No.2, left paracardial node; No.4, greater curvature node; No.5, superior pyloric node; No.8, common hepatic node; No.9, celiac artery node; No.11, splentic artery node; No.12, hepatodudenal node.

¹Solitary metastatic node;

²Single station metastatic node;

³Differences of the frequency distributions between the two groups were not determined;

⁴Not significant.