… In this article, we discuss the rationale, illustrate the changes with relevance to Radiology,
and review the clinical implications of the 8 th edition of the UICC/AJCC TNM staging system …

… a primary tumor and unidirectionally seed metastasis in regional lymph nodes or distant sites.
… cells can seed distant sites as well as the primary tumor itself. This later process, known as '…

… as an alternative to lymph nodes dissection. According to the sentinel lymph node hypothesis,
tumor cells migrating from a primary tumor metastasize to one or a few lymph nodes (LNs) …

… to the number of metastatic lymph nodes when defining the relationship between tumor
size, extrathyroidal extension, or lateral neck lymph nodes and the number of metastatic CLN. …

… lymph node dissection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical implication of lymph
node … Clusters of tumor cells were difficult to define as micrometastases or overt metastases …

… station of metastatic lymph nodes [5]. However, in Western countries, it is classified by the
number of metastatic regional lymph nodes according to the tumor node metastasis (TNM) …

… according to lymph node patterns should be undertaken to guide future clinical trial … tumor
site, pathologic T classification, gender, age, type of resection, or number of N1 lymph nodes …

… Patients who had T1 tumor classification, N0 lymph node status, and stage I disease with
an insufficient number of examined LNs after curative gastrectomy had a significantly worse …

… ELND is based on the concept that metastases occur by passage of the tumor from the
primary to the regional nodes and distant sites, in which case early dissection of regional …

… metastases (total of 20 samples) were selected from over 400 specimens from human
breast cancer patients in our tumor bank by careful screening of clinical criteria and …