A Comprehensive Assessment of Accurate Lymph Node Staging and Preoperative Detection in Resected Pancreatic Cancer

• Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 295 - 302
• Main Authors: Masuda, Toshiro, Dann, Amanda M., Elliott, Irmina A., Baba, Hideo, Kim, Stephen, Sedarat, Alireza, Muthusamy, V. Raman, Girgis, Mark D., Joe Hines, O., Reber, Howard A., Donahue, Timothy R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.02.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal - secondary; Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal - surgery; Endosonography; Female; Gastroenterology; Gastrointestinal surgery; Humans; Lymph Node Excision; Lymph Nodes - diagnostic imaging; Lymph Nodes - pathology; Lymphatic Metastasis; Lymphatic system; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging - methods; Original Article; Pancreatectomy; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic Neoplasms - pathology; Pancreatic Neoplasms - surgery; Predictive Value of Tests; Preoperative Period; Retrospective Studies; Surgery; Survival Rate; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Lymph node; Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Biliary obstruction

Background The current (seventh edition) American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) Staging System for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) dichotomizes pathologic lymph node (LN) involvement into absence (pN0) or presence (pN1) of disease. The recently announced eighth edition also includes stra...