Lymphadenectomy and Extended Resections - Pancreatic Cancer ...
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St<strong>and</strong>ard <strong>Lymphadenectomy</strong>:<br />
What happens in the real world?<br />
4005 patients (SEER database, 1988 – 2003)<br />
Inadequate number of lymph nodes<br />
evaluated<br />
N0 patients with < 12 LN‘s are understaged<br />
N1 patients: Ratio of metastatic to<br />
examined LN‘s will better stratify prognoses<br />
Slidell MB et al., Ann Surg Oncol 2008
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