Open AccessPrognostic significance of 14v-lymph node dissection to D2 dissection for lower-third gastric cancer
Author(s) -
Zheng Chen,
Zhiqiang Gao,
Anqi Sun,
Haibo Huang,
Zhenning Wang,
Kai Li,
Shan Gao
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i18.2712
Subject(s) - medicine , dissection (medical) , cancer , lymph node , surgery , gastrectomy , metastasis
Radical gastrectomy with D2 lymph node (LN) dissection is the standard surgical procedure for patients with resectable gastric cancer (GC). In the fifteenth edition of the Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma, the 14v LN (LNs along the root of the superior mesenteric vein) was defined as the regional gastric LN. The efficacy of 14v LN dissection during radical distal gastrectomy for lower-third GC remains controversial.