Location of early gastric cancer in relation to intestinal metaplasia
| Location of early gastric cancer (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Histological type of gastric cancer | Surrounded by intestinal metaplasia | Adjacent to or far from intestinal metaplasia | No intestinal metaplasia | Total (%) |
| Differentiated | 5 (38) | 8 (62) | 0 (0) | 13 (100) |
| Undifferentiated | 0 (0) | 6 (50) | 6 (50)7-150 | 12 (100) |
| Total | 5 (20) | 14 (56) | 6 (24) | 25 (100) |
↵7-150 Intestinal metaplasia was significantly (p<0.05) more frequent in differentiated than in undifferentiated adenocarcinomas.