ReviewWorld journal of gastrointestinal oncology2016
Non-surgical factors influencing lymph node yield in colon cancer.
Review in World journal of gastrointestinal oncology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Tailored minimum examined lymph node threshold for colon cancer from large multi database analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Colorectal lymph node harvest in cancer surgery, adequacy and treatment implication: a 5-year retrospective analysis from a tertiary hospital in Ethiopia.Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Immune microenvironment and lymph node yield in colorectal cancer.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Preoperative endoscopic tattoo marking improves lymph node retrieval in laparoscopic rectal resection: a retrospective cohort study.Annals of coloproctology · 2023Article
- Gender comparison of clinical, histopathological, therapeutic and outcome factors in 185,967 colon cancer patients.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2020Article
- Exploration of exact significance of lymph node ratio and construction of a novel stage in colon cancer with no distant metastasis.Cancer management and research · 2019Article
- Staging systems for gastric cancer: more complex than TNM.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2019Article
- Evaluation on prognostic efficacy of lymph nodes ratio (LNR) and log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) in complicated colon cancer: the first study in emergency surgery.World journal of surgical oncology · 2018Article
- Factors influencing the number of retrieved lymph nodes after colorectal resection: a retrospective study from a single institute.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2018Article
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Abstract
There are numerous factors which can affect the lymph node (LN) yield in colon cancer specimens. The aim of this paper was to identify both modifiable and non-modifiable factors that have been demonstrated to affect colonic resection specimen LN yield and to summarise the pertinent literature on these topics. A literature review of PubMed was performed to identify the potential factors which may influence the LN yield in colon cancer resection specimens. The terms used for the search were: LN, lymphadenectomy, LN yield, LN harvest, LN number, colon cancer and colorectal cancer. Both non-modifiable and modifiable factors were identified. The review identified fifteen non-surgical factors: (13 non-modifiable, 2 modifiable) which may influence LN yield. LN yield is frequently reduced in older, obese patients and those with male sex and increased in patients with right sided, large, and poorly differentiated tumours. Patient ethnicity and lower socioeconomic class may negatively influence LN yield. Pre-operative tumour tattooing appears to increase LN yield. There are many factors that potentially influence the LN yield, although the strength of the association between the two varies greatly. Perfecting oncological resection and pathological analysis remain the cornerstones to achieving good quality and quantity LN yields in patients with colon cancer.
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