Clinicopathological study for gastric cancer with liver metastasis.

Clinicopathological characteristics, stromal volume (Vvf), nuclear DNA content and cell protein were retrospectively analyzed in order to scrutinize the risk factors of hepatic metastasis from carcinoma of the stomach. We conducted a clinicopathological study of 327 patients with gastric cancer, including 34 patients with liver metastasis (synchronous, 22; metachronous, 12) and 294 patients without liver metastasis. Univariate analysis revealed significant inter-group differences in tumor size (p<0.