Analysis of the Distribution of Lymph Node Metastases and Their Impact on the Prognosis in Ductal Adenocarcinoma of the Distal Part of the Pancreas—A Single-Center Retrospective Study

Cancers (Basel) · 2026 · PMC13297199

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Histopathological aggressiveness features—perineural invasion (PNI; 73.0% in the entire cohort) and vascular invasion (VI; 62.6%)—were relatively evenly distributed, although PNI showed a trend toward a higher incidence in PB (81.8% vs. 63.5% in the PN; p = 0.075), which, however, did not reach significance after adjustment.

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Tumor location did not reach statistical significance in any of the three univariate models.

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