Open AccessThe clinical significance of the intraoperative pathological examination of bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes using frozen sections in cervical field lymph node dissection of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Jinxin Xu,
Bin Zheng,
Shuliang Zhang,
Taidui Zeng,
Hao Chen,
Wei Zheng,
Chun Chen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.07.59
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , recurrent laryngeal nerve , dissection (medical) , cervical lymph nodes , neck dissection , surgery , esophagectomy , pathological , supraclavicular lymph nodes , esophageal cancer , carcinoma , radiology , cancer , thyroid
The aim of this study was to evaluate intraoperative pathological examination of the left and right recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes (LNs) using frozen section as a predictor of cervical LN metastasis.