Influence of Total Lymph Node Count on Staging and Survival After Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: An Analysis From a Two-Institution Database in China

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• 作者：Jun Lu MD ; Wei Wang MD ; Chao-hui Zheng MD ; Cheng Fang MD…
• 刊名：Annals of Surgical Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：24
• 期：2
• 页码：486-493
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• 刊物主题：Surgical Oncology; Oncology; Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1534-4681
• 卷排序：24

文摘

BackgroundAlthough current guidelines suggest that 16 or more lymph nodes (LNs) are required for the appropriate staging of gastric cancer, the effect that the minimum number of examined LNs (eLNs) in the different types of gastrectomy has on survival remains unclear.