Lymph node metastasis in gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma in male patients

Table 5 Number of retrieved lymph nodes, lymph node metastases, lymph node metastasis ratios, and incidence at each station

Node station	pN category	Number of dissected nodes			Number of metastasis nodes			Incidence of lymph node metastasis			Ratio of lymph node metastasis
		T	F	M	T	F	M	T	F	M	T	F	M
No. 1	pN1	448	111	337	100	31	69	22.30%	26.90%	20.50%	26.70%	31.40%	24.30%
No. 2	pN1	249	67	182	54	12	42	21.70%	17.90%	23.10%	18.50%	20.00%	18.00%
No. 3	pN1	1308	334	974	404	100	304	30.90%	29.90%	31.20%	59.60%	60.00%	59.50%
No. 4	pN1	589	136	453	87	45	42	14.80%	33.10%	9.30%	16.40%	22.90%	14.40%
No. 5	pN3	39	9	30	11	7	4	28.20%	77.80%	13.30%	4.10%	5.70%	3.60%
No. 6	pN3	146	33	113	13	9	4	8.90%	27.30%	3.50%	3.40%	8.60%	1.80%
No. 7	pN2	176	49	127	32	8	24	18.20%	16.30%	18.90%	11.60%	8.60%	12.60%
No. 8	pN2	108	26	82	13	3	10	12.00%	11.50%	12.20%	4.10%	5.70%	3.60%
No. 9	pN2	39	8	31	15	2	13	38.50%	25.00%	41.90%	4.10%	2.90%	4.50%
No. 10	pN2	37	11	26	8	0	8	21.60%	0.00%	30.80%	1.40%	0.00%	1.80%
No. 11	pN2	36	6	30	5	0	5	13.90%	0.00%	16.70%	2.70%	0.00%	3.60%
No. 12	pN2	45	6	39	5	0	5	11.10%	0.00%	12.80%	1.40%	0.00%	1.80%
No. 13	M	8	0	8	0	0	0	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
No. 14	M	30	2	28	0	0	0	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
No. 15	M	13	5	8	0	0	0	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
No. 16	M	32	0	32	6	0	6	18.80%	0.00%	18.80%	2.10%	0.00%	2.70%
No. 110	M	37	4	33	1	0	1	2.70%	0.00%	3.00%	0.70%	0.00%	0.90%
Total		3340	807	2533	754	217	537	22.70%	26.90%	21.30%