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ArticleAnnals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery2022

The prognostic value of the lymph node ratio in patients with distal cholangiocarcinoma after curative intended surgery: A single-center retrospective study.

Chaeyung Oh, Hee Joon Kim, Sang Hwa Song, Eun Kyu Park, Young Hoe Hur, Yang Seok Koh, Chol Kyoon Cho

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Article in Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Chaeyung OhDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1290-1837
Hee Joon KimDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8636-5726
Sang Hwa SongDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-8461
Eun Kyu ParkDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7242-4855
Young Hoe HurDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1089-2033
Yang Seok KohDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0368-5389
Chol Kyoon ChoDepartment of Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8457-7314
Chonnam National University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Backgrounds/Aims: The goal of the present study was to evaluate the prognostic value of lymph node ratio (LNR) in distal cholangiocarcinoma (DCC) after curative intended surgery. Methods: Clinicopathological data of 162 DCC patients who underwent radical intended surgery between 2012 and 2020 were analyzed retrospectively. Prognostic factors related to overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were evaluated. Results: Median OS time and DFS time were 41 and 29 months, and 5-year OS rate and DFS rate were 44.7% and 38.1%, respectively. In the univariate analysis, significant prognostic factors for OS were histologic differentiation, American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage, positive lymph node count, LNR, R1 resection, and perineural invasion. Preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen, carbohydrate antigen 19-9, infiltrative type, histologic differentiation, AJCC stage, positive lymph node count, LNR, R1 resection, perineural invasion, and lymph-vascular invasion were significant prognostic factors for DFS in the univariate analysis. In the multivariate analysis, histologic differentiation, R1 resection, and LNR were the independent prognostic factors for both OS and DFS. The LNR ≥ 0.2 group had a significantly poor prognosis in terms of OS (hazard ratio, 3.915; Conclusions: LNR has significant value as a prognostic factor of DCC related to OS and DFS. LNR has the potential to be used as a modified staging system with furthermore studies.

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CholangiocarcinomaLymph node ratioPancreaticoduodenectomySurvival

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