HRs for disease-free 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) | 1.07 (1.01 to 1.13) | 0.018 | 1.09 (1.02 to 1.17) | 0.014 |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | Reference | Reference | ||
| Male | 0.90 (0.76 to 1.07) | 0.229 | 0.81 (0.64 to 1.03) | 0.082 |
| Stage | 1.74 (0.91 to 3.33) | 0.094 | 1.97 (1.25 to 3.11) | 0.004 |
| Distance of tumour to incisor | 0.93 (0.82 to 1.06) | 0.271 | 0.87 (0.75 to 1.01) | 0.067 |
| Differentiation degree | 1.47 (0.98 to 2.21) | 0.063 | 2.12 (1.13 to 3.98) | 0.019 |
| Total no lymph nodes | 0.93 (0.84 to 1.03) | 0.164 | 0.97 (0.86 to 1.09) | 0.627 |
| Common hepatic arterial lymph node resection | ||||
| No | Reference | Reference | ||
| Yes | 0.46 (0.24 to 0.87) | 0.017 | 0.58 (0.36 to 0.94) | 0.026 |
ESCC, oesophageal squamous carcinoma; HRadj, adjusted HR.