Lymph node ratio, but not the total number of examined lymph nodes or lymph node metastasis, is a predictor of overall survival for pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms after surgical resection

AIM: To evaluate the prognostic significance of lymph node metastasis, extent of examined lymph nodes (ELNs) and lymph node ratio (LNR) for resected pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (pNENs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Surgically resected pNENs were assimilated from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and...

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Published in:Oncotarget
Main Authors: Liu, Peng, Zhang, Xianbin, Shang, Yuru, Lu, Lili, Cao, Fei, Sun, Min, Tang, Zhaohui, Vollmar, Brigitte, Gong, Peng
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Impact Journals LLC 2017
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Clinical Research Paper
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5687686/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29179516
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19184
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