HRs for overall survival among patients with ESCC presenting with left gastric arterial lymph node metastasis and stratified according to clinicopathological characteristics
| Variables | Univariate | Multivariate | ||
| HR (95% CI) | P value | HRadj (95% CI) | P value | |
| Age (years) | 1.09 (1.01 to 1.19) | 0.039 | 1.12 (1.14 to 1.26) | <0.001 |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | Reference | Reference | ||
| Male | 0.92 (0.81 to 1.05) | 0.21 | 0.96 (0.79 to 1.06) | 0.598 |
| Stage | 2.03 (0.98 to 4.21) | 0.057 | 1.89 (1.12 to 3.19) | 0.003 |
| Distance of tumour to incisor | 0.86 (0.73 to 1.02) | 0.077 | 0.91 (0.74 to 1.11) | 0.368 |
| Differentiation degree | 1.63 (1.04 to 2.55) | 0.032 | 1.07 (1.01 to 1.13) | 0.018 |
| Total no lymph nodes | 0.89 (0.76 to 1.04) | 0.146 | 0.81 (0.66 to 0.99) | 0.041 |
| Common hepatic arterial lymph node resection | ||||
| No | Reference | Reference | ||
| Yes | 0.48 (0.25 to 0.91) | 0.024 | 0.63 (0.41 to 0.97) | 0.035 |
ESCC, oesophageal squamous carcinoma; HRadj, adjusted HR.