Clinical pathological data for gastric cancer patients with different numbers of harvested lymph nodes.

*These 35 remnant stomach patients all had a more than 5 years history of the gastrectomy because of the gastric ulcer.**Poorly-differentiated cells: signet ring cell carcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, etc.***The T and N stagings for this group of patients are defined according to the AJCC’s 7th TNM staging system for gastric cancer.