Influence of the Number of Malignant Regional Lymph Nodes Detected by Endoscopic Ultrasonography on Survival Stratification in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

• Published in: Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology Vol. 4; no. 5; pp. 573 - 579
• Main Authors: Chen, Jaime, Xu, Ronghui, Hunt, Gordon C., Krinsky, Mary Lee, Savides, Thomas J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.05.2006
• Subjects: Adenocarcinoma - diagnostic imaging; Adenocarcinoma - mortality; Adenocarcinoma - pathology; Adenocarcinoma - secondary; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis of Variance; Endosonography - methods; Esophageal Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Esophageal Neoplasms - mortality; Esophageal Neoplasms - pathology; Female; Humans; Lymph Nodes - diagnostic imaging; Lymph Nodes - pathology; Lymphatic Metastasis; Male; Middle Aged; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Sensitivity and Specificity; Survival Analysis; FNA; UCSD; VAMC; EUS; TNM; GEJ

Background & Aims: The nodal staging of esophageal cancer accounts for the absence or presence of metastatic lymph nodes (N0 or N1, respectively). Surgical data suggest that patients have worse survival when esophagectomy specimens contain higher numbers of regional malignant lymph nodes. It has...