Erratum to: J Gastroenterol DOI 10.1007/s00535-014-0941-3

In Table 1 of this article, under the heading "Age", "<66" should be ">66". Also, under the final heading, “Tissue HER2 status”, the two values shown (two each) in the columns for “Serum HER2 negative (n = 140)” and “Serum HER2 positive (n = 10)” were transposed. The correct table is shown as follows.

Table 1 Correlation between serum HER2-ECD levels and clinicopathologic variables

On the graph in Fig. 2, the labels for the symbols for “Non-responder” and “Responder” were transposed. The correct figure is shown as follows.

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