A comparative study on two different pathological methods to retrieve lymph nodes following gastrectomy

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 725-728

  Lavy, Ron ^a   Hershkovitz, Yehuda ^a   Kapiev, Andronik ^a   Chikman, Bar ^a   Shapira, Zahar ^a   Poluksht, Natan ^a   Yarom, Nirit ^a   Sandbank, Judith ^a   Halevy, Ariel ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gastrectomy; Lymph node retrieval; Lymphadenectomy

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; FORMALDEHYDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINITIS PLASTICA; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LYMPH NODE RETRIEVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADENOCARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84902956239     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2014.05.057     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Schlansky B., Sonnenberg A. Epidemiology of noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma in the United States. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 2011, 106:1978-1985.
2. Kamangar F., Dores G.M., Anderson W.F. Patterns of cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence across five continents: defining priorities to reduce cancer disparities in different geographic regions of the world. J. Clin. Oncol. 2006, 24:2137-2150.
3. Buffart T.E., Louw M., van Grieken N.C., Tijssen M., Carvalho B., Ylstra B., et al. Gastric cancers of Western European and African patients show different patterns of genomic instability. BMC Med. Genomics 2011, 106:1978-1985.
4. Siegel R., Naishadham D., Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2012. CA Cancer J. Clin. 2012, 62:10-29.
5. Lavy R., Kapiev A., Poluksht N., Halevy A., Keinan-Boker L. Incidence trends and mortality rates of gastric cancer in Israel. Gastric Cancer 2013, 16:121-125.
6. Schofield J.B., Mounter N.A., Mallett R., Haboubi N.Y. The importance of accurate pathological assessment of lymph node involvement in colorectal cancer. Colorectal Dis. 2006, 8:460-470.
7. Asoglu O., Matlim T., Kurt A., Onder S.Y., Kunduz E., Karanlik H., et al. Guidelines for extended lymphadenectomy in gastric cancer: a prospective comparative study. Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2013, 20:218-225.
8. Seevaratnam R., Bocicariu A., Cardoso R., Yohanathan L., Dixon M., Law C., et al. How many lymph nodes should be assessed in patients with gastric cancer? A systematic review. Gastric Cancer 2012, 15(Suppl. 1):S70-S88.
9. Schwarz R.E., Smith D.D. Clinical impact of lymphadenectomy extent in resectable gastric cancer of advanced stage. Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2007, 14:317-328.
10. Bouvier A.M., Haas O., Piard F., Roignot P., Bonithon-Kopp C., Faivre J. How many nodes must be examined to accurately stage gastric carcinomas? Results from a population based study. Cancer 2002, 94:2862-2866.
11. Smith B.R., Stabile B.E. Aggressive D2 lymphadenectomy is required for accurate pathologic staging of gastric adenocarcinoma. Am. Surg. 2006, 72:849-852.
12. Ichikura T., Ogawa T., Chochi K., Kawabata T., Sugasawa H., Mochizuki H. Minimum number of lymph nodes that should be examined for the international union against cancer/American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM classification of gastric carcinoma. World J. Surg. 2003, 27:330-333.
13. Xu D., Huang Y., Geng Q., Guan Y., Li Y., Wang W., et al. Effect of lymph node number on survival of patients with lymph node-negative gastric cancer according to the 7th edition UICC TNM system. PLoS One 2012, 7:e38681.
14. Baxter N.N., Tuttle T.M. Inadequacy of lymph node staging in gastric cancer patients: a population-based study. Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2005, 12:981-987.
15. Brown H.G., Luckasevic T.M., Medich D.S., Celebrezze J.P., Jones S.M. Efficacy of manual dissection of lymph nodes in colon cancer resections. Mod. Pathol. 2004, 17:402-406.
16. Peyre C.G., Hagen J.A., DeMeester S.R., Altorki N.K., Ancona E., Griffin S.M., et al. The number of lymph nodes removed predicts survival in esophageal cancer: an international study on the impact of extent of surgical resection. Ann. Surg. 2008, 248:549-556.
17. Deng J.Y., Liang H., Sun D., Pan Y., Zhang R.P., Wang B.G., et al. Outcome in relation to numbers of nodes harvested in lymph node-positive gastric cancer. Eur. J. Surg. Oncol. 2009, 35:814-819.
18. Huang C.M., Lin J.X., Zheng C.H., Li P., Xie J.W., Lin B.J., et al. Prognostic impact of dissected lymph node count on patients with node-negative gastric cancer. World J. Gastroenterol. 2009, 15:3926-3930.
19. Scartozzi M., Galizia E., Graziano F., Catalano V., Berardi R., Baldelli A.M., et al. Over-DI dissection may question the value of radiotherapy as a part of an adjuvant programme in high-risk radically resected gastric cancer patients. Br. J. Cancer 2005, 92:1051-1054.
20. Coburn N.G., Swallow C.J., Kiss A., Law C. Significant regional variation in adequacy of lymph node assessment and survival in gastric cancer. Cancer 2006, 107:2143-2151.
21. Vogel C., Kirtil T., Oellig F., Stolte M. Lymph node preparation in resected colorectal carcinoma specimens employing the acetone clearing method. Pathol. Res. Pract. 2008, 204:11-15.
22. Scott K.W., Grace R.H. Detection of lymph node metastases in colorectal carcinoma before and after fat clearance. Br. J. Surg. 1989, 76:1165-1167.
23. Gehoff A., Basten O., Sprenger T., Conradi L.C., Bismarck C., Bandorski D., et al. Optimal lymph node harvest in rectal cancer (UICC stages II and III) after preoperative 5-FU-based radiochemotherapy. Acetone compression is a new and highly efficient method. Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 2012, 36:202-213.
24. Arav E., Picot M., De La Tour Du Pin E., Yaziji N., Majek E., Patey M., et al. How to optimize lymph node dissection in colorectal cancers. A technique for simple and efficacious clarification. Ann. Pathol. 1999, 19:147-150.