… of lymph node metastatic spread (downward, extramesenteric). Of the 69 patients with …
metastasis, 62 had positive nodes, thus leaving in total 288 patients with lymph node metastases …

… of lymph nodes harboring occult metastases in … nodal metastases, further dissection of levels
IV and V in these 65 patients with positive nodes, would have removed nodal metastases in …

… lymph node metastases-associated risk factors and to identify subsets of patients with different
prognosis according to the number of involved nodes… with lymph node metastases was …

… subclinical cervical lymph node (LN) metastases in … metastatic nodes in the central
compartment. We therefore investigated the pattern and predictive indicators of central LN …

… lymph node metastases were found in 41 patients (17·3 per cent). Increased risk of lateral
lymph node metastases … presence of mesenteric lymph node metastases. Patients with lateral …

… have been reported in many institutions,3, 4 the appropriate extent of lymph node dissection
… the incidence of lymph node metastasis, predictive factors, and sites of nodal metastases to …

… seems to be important in evaluating the impact of lymph node metastasis (12–15), though
the variables were not considered in the present study. Depth of invasion and tumor site were …

… the rumulatiue percentage o/' specimens which had lymph … The number of lymph node
metastases found in the present … one node can reveal an increased number of nodal metastases. …

… In the present study, lymph node metastasis of EGC was demonstrated to decrease the overall
survival rate as well as the survival rate excluding deaths due to diseases unrelated to the …

… exhibit lymph node (LN) metastasis. In the current study, accurate predictors for LN metastasis
in patients with ECC were examined by using immunohistochemistry with the lymphatic …