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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

A Preoperative Scoring System to Predict the Risk of Inadequate Lymph Node Count in Rectal Cancer.

Hao Zhang, Chunlin Wang, Yunxiao Liu, Hanqing Hu, Guiyu Wang

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hao ZhangDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Chunlin WangDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Yunxiao LiuDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Hanqing HuDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Guiyu WangDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Harbin Medical University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a preoperative scoring system to stratify rectal cancer (RC) patients with different risks of inadequate lymph node examination. Methods: A total of 1,375 stage I-III RC patients between 2011 and 2020 from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University were included in the retrospective study and randomly divided into a development set ( Results: Preoperative significant indicators related to LNC < 12 included age, tumor size, tumor location, and CEA. The AUCs of the scoring system for development and validation sets were 0.694 (95% CI = 0.648-0.741) and 0.666 (95% CI = 0.615-0.716), respectively. Patients who scored 0-2, 3-4, and 5-6 were classified into the low-risk group, medium-risk group, and high-risk group, respectively. Conclusions: The preoperative scoring system could identify RC patients with high risk of inadequate lymphadenectomy accurately and further provide a reference to perform preoperative lymph node staining in targeted patients to reduce the difficulty of meeting the 12-node standard, with the purpose of accurate tumor stage and favorable prognosis.

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lymph node examinationpreoperative factorrectal cancerrisk modelscoring system

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