## Background: Lymph node metastasis is a well known feature of poor prognosis in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. however, a significant proportion of apparently lymph node negative patients die early of metastatic disease. the aim of this study was to determine
Effect of immune function on lymph node micrometastasis in esophageal cancer patients
β Scribed by Zimin Qin; Bing Li; Wenguang Wang
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1610-1979
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W e recently read the article by Glickman et al. regarding the prognostic significance of lymph node micrometastasis in esophageal carcinoma patients. 1 Indeed, it addresses a very interesting topic, and we would like to make a few observations. First, as stated in the article, the surgical procedur
## Abstract ## Background and Objectives Lymph node micrometastasis is frequently detected in resected specimens of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The goal of this study was to evaluate the clinical implication of micrometastasis in patients with lymph nodeβnegative (pN0) disease. ##