Metastatic lymph nodes and prognosis assessed by the number of retrieved lymph nodes in gastric cancer.

World J Gastrointest Surg · 2022 · PMC9727575 · PMID 36504519

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The smooth curve shows that for pT1 stage and pT2 stage cancer, MLNs and RLNs have a positive trend, but for pT1 stage cancer, when RLNs are approximately 50, the number of MLNs shows a downward trend, which may be related to the lower risk of LN metastasis in early GC.

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