… at only 12 lymph nodes, a metastasis may have been missed. We evaluated the number of
pericolonic lymph nodes recovered and pericolonic lymph node metastases detected to study …

… Metastatic lymph node (MLN) is less frequently involved in early gastric cancer (EGC) …
number. The prognostic value of the 5th edition of the UICC tumor–node–metastasis (TNM) node …

… tumor and lymph node metastasis.Lymph node status is the single most important prognostic
factor in esophageal cancer, with an increasing number of metastatic lymph nodes being …

… neck lymph node (LN) metastases (defined as pN1a according to Tumor Node Metastasis
… LN ratio was defined as the number of metastatic LNs divided by the number of removed …

… of lymph node ratio (LNR), defined as the number of metastatic LNs divided by the number of
… the advantage of considering the LNR compared to the number of LNs retrieved and/or LN …

… the correlation between the number of LNs retrieved and metastatic lymph node ratio. A linear
… the relationship between the number of lymph nodes retrieved and the number involved. …

… We evaluated the factors that affected the number of lymph nodes removed and the … number
of lymph nodes examined, the patients were subdivided into five groups; group 1, 1–4 nodes…

… The percentage of metastatic involvement for all lymph node … lymph node size group 10–15
mm for a total number of 187 … of lymph node metastasis in mediastinal lymph nodes …

… the extent of metastatic lymph node involvement with … lymph node positivity leads to equally
adverse outcomes.3, 4, 5 More recently, there has been interest in the metastatic lymph node …

… the prognostic importance of the number of lymph nodes removed (lymph node yield, LNY)
and the proportion of metastatic lymph nodes resected (metastatic lymph node ratio, MLNR) …