Significance of Examined Lymph Node Number in Accurate Staging and Long-term Survival in Resected Stage I-II Pancreatic Cancer-More is Better? A Large International Population-based Cohort Study

• Published in: Annals of surgery Vol. 274; no. 6; p. e554
• Main Authors: Huang, Lei, Jansen, Lina, Balavarca, Yesilda, van der Geest, Lydia, Lemmens, Valery, Koerkamp, Bas Groot, van Santvoort, Hjalmar C, Grützmann, Robert, Besselink, Marc G, Schrotz-King, Petra, Brenner, Hermann
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2021

This large international cohort study aimed to investigate the associations of examined lymph node (ELN) number with accurate staging and long-term survival in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PaC) and to robustly determine the minimal and optimal ELN thresholds. ELN number is an important quality metric...