Mapping of Lymph Node Metastasis and Survival For pN+ Superficial Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

National Cancer Center, China

Status: Completed

Conditions: National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital

Treatments: Procedure: Esophagectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05526456

20/388-2584

Details and patient eligibility

About

With the deeper tumor invasion, the higher LNM rate beside the bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerves(RLN) was.

Enrollment: 207 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 44 to 73 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Our predefined search strategy identified pT1N+ ESCC cases without preoperative treatment, between February 2012 and April 2022.

Exclusion criteria

• The patients were excluded because they were (1)less than 10 lymph nodes removed; (2) lacked specific sites of LNM; or (3) incomplete follow-up information.