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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Predictive factors for esophageal stenosis in patients receiving prophylactic steroid therapy after endoscopic submucosal dissection for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Characteristics

N = 211

Male sex, n (%)

189 (89.6)

Age (years), mean ± SD

68.3 ± 9.5

ESD history, n (%)

42 (19.9)

CRT history, n (%)

17 (10.5)

Tumor size, mean ± SD

37.7 ± 19.3

Location, n (%)

 Ce/Ut

47 (22.2)

 Mt

101 (47.9)

 Lt/Ae

63 (29.9)

Macroscopic type, n (%)

 0-Is

7 (3.3)

 0-IIa

11 (5.2)

 0-IIb

16 (7.6)

 0-IIc

177 (83.9)

Tumor depth (clinical diagnosis), n (%)

 cT1a-EP/LPM

159 (75.4)

 cT1a-MM/ cT1b-SM1

43 (20.4)

 cT1b-SM2

9 (4.2)

Tumor depth (pathological diagnosis), n (%)

 pT1a-EP

56 (26.5)

 pT1a-LPM

85 (40.3)

 pT1a-MM

46 (40.3)

 pT1b-SM1

12 (5.6)

 pT1b-SM2

12 (5.6)

 Presence of additional CRT after ESD, n (%)

27 (12.8)

 Total number of EBD procedures, median (range)

8 (0–104)

 Entire circumferential ESD, n (%)

47 (22.3)

 Muscle layer injury, n (%)

16 (7.5)

Prevention methods for ES

 TrA injection only

89 (42.2)

 TrA injection + oral PSL

122 (57.8)

 EBD with TrA injection, n (%)

52a (46.4)

  1. aThis percentage indicates the proportion of EBD with TrA injection cases to the total number of EBD cases