Table 4 Clinicopathological data of the patients with metastasis of the lymph nodes around the PGA

Case

Gender

Age

Tumor location

Longitudinal tumor diameter

Macroscopic type

Histologic type

1

Male

67

Esophagogastric junction

6 cm

Borrmann III

Signet-ring cell carcinoma

2

Male

70

Upper portion

12 cm

Borrmann IV

Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma

Case

pTNM

Total number of metastatic lymph nodes/Total number of dissected lymph nodes

Number of metastatic lymph nodes around the PGA /Number of dissected lymph nodes around the PGA

Other metastatic regional lymph nodes

1

pT4aN3bM0

16/30

2/2

No.1、No.3、No.7、No.8a、No.9、No.11、No.20

2

pT4aN2M0

6/63

1/2

No.3、No.11