Predictive Biomarkers of Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Gastric Cancer: A Reference of Clinicopathological Characteristics, Protein Expression, Epstein-Barr Virus Status, and Microsatellite Instability

SUN-JU BYEON¹,
MEE SOO CHANG¹ ⇑,
HYE EUN PARK¹,
DOEHEE KANG¹,
YUTING WANG¹,
DONG-SEOK HAN²,
HYE SUNG AHN²,
SEUNG CHUL HEO²,
MYONG SEOK LEE³,
WON KIM⁴,
SU HWAN KIM⁴,
DONG-WON AHN⁴ and
KOOK LAE LEE on behalf of the Gastrointestinal Diseases Study Group of Seoul National University Boramae Hospital⁴

¹Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
²Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
³Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
⁴Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Correspondence to: Mee Soo Chang, MD, Ph.D., Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 20 Boramae-ro 5-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 07061, Republic of Korea. Tel: +82 (2)8702641, Fax: +82 (2)8703866, e-mail: meesooch{at}snu.ac.kr