Number of metastatic lymph nodes, but not lymph node ratio, is an independent prognostic factor after resection of pancreatic carcinoma

Y Murakami, K Uemura, T Sudo, Y Hayashidani… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Elsevier
… of the number of metastatic lymph nodes and the ratio of metastatic nodes to total number
of examined lymph nodes (lymph node ratio, LNR) after resection of pancreatic carcinoma. …

Prognostic implications of lymph node yield and lymph node ratio in papillary thyroid carcinoma

JH Vas Nunes, JR Clark, K Gao, E Chua, P Campbell… - Thyroid, 2013 - liebertpub.com
lymph node yield (LNY, the total number of lymph nodes dissected) and lymph node ratio
(LNR, the number of positive lymph nodes divided by the total amount of lymph nodes) to be …

Prognostic significance of metastatic lymph node ratio in node-positive colon carcinoma

HY Lee, HJ Choi, KJ Park, JS Shin, HC Kwon… - Annals of surgical …, 2007 - Springer
… The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of the lymph node ratio
between metastatic and examined lymph nodes (LNR) in patients with stage III colon cancer. …

Outcome of ratio of lymph node metastasis in gastric carcinoma

E Bando, Y Yonemura, K Taniguchi, S Fushida… - Annals of surgical …, 2002 - Springer
… the outcome of the ratio of the metastatic lymph nodes (RML) … Cox model identified all
methods of classifying lymph node … of lymph node metastasis in patients with gastric carcinoma

Prognostic value of lymph node metastases and lymph node ratio in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

YP Liu, L Ma, SJ Wang, YN Chen, GX Wu… - European Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
… so far evaluated the lymph node metastasis among this group … the impact of lymph node
positivity and ratio on survival of … the ratio of positive lymph nodes to excised lymph nodes as …

Lymph node ratio as a quality and prognostic indicator in stage III colon cancer

SL Chen, SR Steele, J Eberhardt, K Zhu… - Annals of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… (LNR) may have independent prognostic value in colon carcinoma. … Hence, we sought
to determine whether the ratio of metastatic to examined lymph nodes or lymph node ratio (LNR) …

The superiority of ratio-based lymph node staging in gastric carcinoma

K Inoue, Y Nakane, H Iiyama, M Sato… - Annals of surgical …, 2002 - Springer
… are shown in relation to the number of involved regional lymph nodes and the lymph
node ratio. The error bars show 95% confidence intervals. UICC, International Union Against …

The lymph node ratio as a prognostic factor for gastric cancer

SD Nelen, LN van Steenbergen, AE Dassen… - Acta …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… and for various other types of carcinomas [Citation18]. … a limited lymph node dissection and
who thus generally have a small number of lymph nodes examined, the lymph node ratio is a …

Lymph node ratio as an independent prognostic factor in oral squamous cell carcinoma

A Ebrahimi, JR Clark, WJ Zhang, MS Elliott… - Head & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… We aimed to validate the lymph node ratio (LNR) as an independent prognostic factor in
oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and compare its utility with the current nodal staging …

Lymph node ratio is an independent prognostic factor in gastric cancer after curative resection (R0) regardless of the examined number of lymph nodes

D Lin, Y Li, H Xu, J Chen, B Wang, C Liu… - American journal of …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Carcinoma Association. D1 lymphadenectomy involves removal of perigastric … lymph node
ratio is an independent prognostic factor regardless of the examined number of lymph nodes