1. Key nodal stations for predicting splenic hilar nodal metastasis in upper advanced gastric cancer without invasion of the greater curvature.
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Nishino, Masashi, Yoshikawa, Takaki, Yura, Masahiro, Ogawa, Rei, Sakon, Ryota, Ishizu, Kenichi, Wada, Takeyuki, Hayashi, Tsutomu, and Yamagata, Yukinori
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STOMACH cancer ,METASTASIS ,CURVATURE ,SPLENIC artery ,COMPUTED tomography ,SPLENECTOMY - Abstract
Background: Standard surgery for upper advanced gastric cancer without invasion of the greater curvature (UGC‐GC) is spleen‐preserving D2 total gastrectomy without dissection of the splenic‐hilar nodes (#10). However, some patients with nodal metastasis to #10 survive more than 5 years due to nodal dissection of #10. If nodal metastasis to #10 is predictable based on the positivity of other nodes dissected by the current standard surgery without #10 nodal dissection, physicians may be able to consider #10 dissection. Methods: This study retrospectively reviewed data from the National Cancer Center Hospital in Japan between 2000 and 2012. We selected cases that met the following criteria: (1) D2 or more total gastrectomy with splenectomy, (2) UGC‐GC, and (3) histological type is gastric adenocarcinoma. We performed univariate and multivariate analyses concerning lymph node stations associated with #10 metastasis. Results: A total of 366 patients were examined. A multivariate analysis revealed that #10 metastasis was associated with positivity of the nodes along the short gastric arteries (#4sa) and distal nodes along the splenic artery (#11d) (#4sa: p = 0.003, #11d: p = 0.016). When either key node was positive, the metastatic rate of #10 was 24.4%, and the therapeutic value index was 13.3. Conclusions: #4sa and #11d were key lymph nodes predicting #10 nodal metastasis in UGC‐GC. When these key nodes are positive on computed tomography before surgery or according to a rapid pathological examination during surgery, dissection of #10 should be considered even if upper advanced tumors are not invading the greater curvature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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