Open AccessImpact of the extent of negative lymph nodes in gastric adenocarcinoma undergoing primary surgical resection: An institutional report
Author(s) -
Yen Jen Chen,
Shin Ting Yeh,
Liang Ou,
Ching-Heng Lin,
Chiang Ting Chien
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000500
Subject(s) - medicine , gastrectomy , lymph , hazard ratio , perineural invasion , lymph node , proportional hazards model , gastroenterology , adenocarcinoma , dissection (medical) , cancer , surgery , pathology , confidence interval
Sub-total/total gastrectomy with lymph node dissection (LND) remains an effective therapeutic strategy for resectable gastric adenocarcinomas (GACs). Despite the prognostic significance of positive lymph nodes (PLNs) defined in N-status, few have appraised the impacts of negative lymph nodes (NLNs) and the percentage of NLN (=number of NLNs/number of total lymph nodes [TLNs], %), as well as the extent of TLNs to be dissected in GACs.