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ArticleCancers2021

The Presence of Small Nerve Fibers in the Tumor Microenvironment as Predictive Biomarker of Oncological Outcome Following Partial Hepatectomy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.

Jan Bednarsch, Xiuxiang Tan, Zoltan Czigany, Dong Liu, Sven Arke Lang, Shivan Sivakumar, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Simone Appinger, Mika Rosin, Shiva Boroojerdi and 7 more

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jan BednarschDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Xiuxiang TanDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Zoltan CziganyDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0373-3210
Dong LiuDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Sven Arke LangDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Shivan SivakumarDepartment of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK.
Jakob Nikolas KatherDepartment of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Simone AppingerDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Mika RosinDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Shiva BoroojerdiDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Edgar DahlInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8439-7994
Nadine Therese GaisaInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4762-3964
Marcel den DulkDepartment of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Mariëlle CoolsenDepartment of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Tom Florian UlmerDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Ulf Peter NeumannDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
Lara Rosaline HeijDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0602-3356
RWTH Aachen University · DEMaastricht University · NLUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The oncological role of the density of nerve fibers (NFs) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) remains to be determined. Therefore, data of 95 iCCA patients who underwent hepatectomy between 2010 and 2019 was analyzed regarding NFs and long-term outcome. Extensive group comparisons were carried out and the association of cancer-specific survival (CSS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) with NFs were assessed using Cox regression models. Patients with iCCA and NFs showed a median CSS of 51 months (5-year-CSS = 47%) compared to 27 months (5-year-CSS = 21%) in patients without NFs (

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biomarkerintrahepatic cholangiocarcinomanerve fibersoncological outcometumor microenvironment

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PMID34359564
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