Clinical Significance of Lymph Node Ratio and Location of Nodal Involvement in Patients with Right Colon Cancer | Zendy

Hirotoshi Kobayashi | Zendy; Masayuki Enomoto | Zendy; Tetsuro Higuchi | Zendy; Hiroyuki Uetake | Zendy; Satoru Iida | Zendy; Toshiaki Ishikawa | Zendy; Megumi Ishiguro | Zendy; Shunsuke Kato | Zendy; Kenichi Sugihara | Zendy

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Clinical Significance of Lymph Node Ratio and Location of Nodal Involvement in Patients with Right Colon Cancer

Author(s) -

Hirotoshi Kobayashi,

Masayuki Enomoto,

Tetsuro Higuchi,

Hiroyuki Uetake,

Satoru Iida,

Toshiaki Ishikawa,

Megumi Ishiguro,

Shunsuke Kato,

Kenichi Sugihara

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

digestive surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1421-9983

pISSN - 0253-4886

DOI - 10.1159/000323966

Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , lymph node , lymph , dissection (medical) , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , ligation , oncology , gastroenterology , radiology , surgery , pathology , paleontology , biology

Increasing negative lymph node count has been reported to be associated with better outcomes in patients with colon cancer. The present study aimed to clarify the clinical significance of the lymph node ratio (LNR) and location of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with stage III right colon cancer.

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