ArticleJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2021
Prognostic impact of lymph node metastasis along the left gastric artery in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
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- Lymph Node Metastasis Pattern and Influencing Factors in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2026Article
- Prognostic value of left gastric artery lymph node metastasis in patients with thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective cohort study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Validation of the Node Reporting and Data System (Node-RADS) for standardized CT evaluation of regional lymph nodes in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients.European radiology · 2025Article
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- Patterns of regional lymph node metastasis predict postoperative overall survival and disease-free survival in locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2024Article
- The molecular characteristics could supplement the staging system of pT2/T3N0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a translational study based on a cohort with over 20 years of follow-up.Cancer cell international · 2024Article
- Pararespiratory and paradigestive lymph node metastases in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: predicting survival and refining the N staging system.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- The survival benefit from surgery on patients with large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma in the lung: a propensity-score matching study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2023Article
- A Study on Risk Factors Associated with Reflux Esophagitis in Patients Undergoing Esophageal Cancer Surgery.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough the incidence of lymph node (LN) metastasis (LNM) along the left gastric artery is high, its relationship with the prognosis in postoperative patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is rarely reported. This study clarified the prognostic impact of LNM along the left gastric artery in postoperative patients with ESCC.
methodsThis study assessed data of 1521 patients with ESCC who underwent esophagectomy at the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center between March 1992 and March 2012. A chi-squared test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to explore the preliminary correlation between clinical factors and LNM along the left gastric artery. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to assess whether LNM along the left gastric artery was an independent predictor of overall survival. Kaplan-Meier analysis and the log-rank test were used to present a classifying effect based on LN status.
resultsLNM was observed in 598 patients (39.3%) and was found along the branches of the left gastric artery in 256 patients (16.8%). The patients were classified into two groups based on the presence of LNM along the left gastric artery. Patients without LNM along the left gastric artery had better cancer-specific survival than those with positive LNs (P < 0.001).
conclusionsThis study indicated that LNM along the left gastric artery was an important independent prognostic factor for long-term survival among ESCC patients (P = 0.011).
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