Research Article
Clinicopathological Features and Prognostic Implication of Gastric Carcinoma with Lymphoid Stroma
Table 2
The estimated rates of gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma.
| | Number of subsets | Fixed effect (95% CI) | Heterogeneity test ( value) | Random effect (95% CI) | Egger’s test ( value) | Meta-regression test ( value) |
| GCLS rate | 20 | 0.097 [0.092, 0.103] | <0.001 | 0.062 [0.040, 0.097] | 0.023 | 0.392 | EGC | 5 | 0.087 [0.079, 0.095] | <0.001 | 0.054 [0.022, 0.129] | 0.077 | AGC | 1 | 0.136 [0.119, 0.155] | 1.000 | 0.136 [0.119, 0.155] | — |
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CI, confidence interval; GCLS, gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma; EGC, early gastric carcinoma; AGC, advanced gastric carcinoma EGC vs. AGC. |