Open AccessScoring Model Based on Nodal Metastasis Prediction Suggesting an Alternative Treatment to Total Gastrectomy in Proximal Early Gastric Cancer
Author(s) -
Seol So,
Jin Hee Noh,
Ji Yong Ahn,
Beom Su Kim,
Jung Bok Lee,
Hwoon Yong Jung,
Jeong-Hwan Yook,
Byung-Sik Kim
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of gastric cancer/daehan wiam haghoeji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.806
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2093-5641
pISSN - 1598-1320
DOI - 10.5230/jgc.2022.22.e3
Subject(s) - medicine , lymphovascular invasion , perineural invasion , gastrectomy , pathological , multivariate analysis , logistic regression , dissection (medical) , cancer , receiver operating characteristic , univariate analysis , lymph node , lymph node metastasis , gastroenterology , oncology , metastasis , surgery
Total gastrectomy (TG) with lymph node (LN) dissection is recommended for early gastric cancer (EGC) but is not indicated for endoscopic resection (ER). We aimed to identify patients who could avoid TG by establishing a scoring system for predicting lymph node metastasis (LNM) in proximal EGCs.