Open AccessEvaluation of lymph node ratio and morphologic patterns of nodal reactive hyperplasia in primary organ malignancy
Author(s) -
Shinde Sweety,
Ashwini Sardar Narayankar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_62_18
Subject(s) - medicine , lymph node , breast cancer , malignancy , stage (stratigraphy) , exact test , gastroenterology , pathology , cancer , biology , paleontology
Lymph node ratio (LNR) in cancer staging is the ratio of nodal metastases (LNM) to total nodes harvested (LNH). Reactive nodal hyperplasia can exhibit morphological patterns I to VI.