The Role of Metastatic Lymph Node Ratio in Gastric Cancer

[ 22 ] studied 1585 patients with colorectal cancer and used this method to demonstrate the probability of LN involvement according to the number of analysed LNs using the

Abstract: The purpose of the study was to analyze the prognostic value of metastatic lymph node ratio (LNR) in pancreatic cancer (PC) patients undergoing surgical operation..

Some researches have demonstrated that no matter how many the number of examined lymph nodes number is, MLR stage compared with pN category stage can better predict the

We report a case of early antral gastric adenocarcinoma (pT1a) with synchronous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) metastasis in 4 out of 34 perigastric LN with occult primary SCC..

The metastatic lymph node ratio (MLNR), the ratio of positive nodes to the total number of total retrieved nodes, which is reported to show metastatic lymph node status more

Marchet A, Mocellin S, Ambrosi A, Morgagni P, Garcea D, Marrelli D, Roviello F, de Manzoni G, Minicozzi A, Natalini G: The ratio between metastatic and examined lymph nodes (N

UL status is defined as having pathologic evidence of metastatic esophageal cancer in LN after esophagectomy in preoperative cases without LN metastasis (i.e. cN0 on the

In the present case, the somatic mutations were identified only in the metastatic LN tissue and not in the primary tumor. To explain this crucial observation, one can