1. Comparison of lymph node number and prognosis in gastric cancer patients with perigastric lymph nodes retrieved by surgeons and pathologists
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Dawei Zhao, Lixin Jiang, Yifei Zhang, Dong Wang, Jinchen Hu, Xixun Wang, Zhenbin Zhang, Hui-Yuan Zhai, and Zeng-Wu Yao
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Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Stage ii ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,lymph node retrieval ,Perigastric lymph node ,medicine ,Stage (cooking) ,Lymph node ,Survival analysis ,business.industry ,Cancer ,Perigastric ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Original Article ,Lymph ,prognosis ,business ,Gastric cancer ,surgeon and pathologist - Abstract
OBJECTIVE To compare the numbers of positive and total lymph nodes and prognosis in gastric cancer patients whose perigastric lymph node retrieval was performed by surgeons and pathologists. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinical and follow-up data from 1, 056 patients who underwent gastric cancer D2 radical lymph node resection between January 2008 and December 2010 in the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital. The follow-up ended in December 2015. Patients were divided into two groups according to the specialty of physicians who performed the postoperative perigastric lymph node retrieval: the surgeon group (475 cases) and the pathologist group (581 cases). The numbers of positive and total perigastric lymph nodes and the 3- and 5-year survival were compared between gastric cancer patients in the two groups overall and stratified by TNM stage (the 7th Edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer). RESULTS Overall, the numbers of positive and total lymph nodes were significantly higher in the surgeon group than in the pathologist group (6.53±4.07 vs. 4.09±3.70, P=0.021; 29.64±11.50 vs. 20.71±8.56, P
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- 2016