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Lymph node harvest reporting in patients with carcinoma of the large bowel : A French population-based study

✍ Scribed by Jean Maurel; Guy Launoy; Pascale Grosclaude; Marc Gignoux; Patrick Arveux; Hélène Mathieu-Daudé; Nicole Raverdy; Jean Faivre

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
79 KB
Volume
82
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

RESULTS. An average of 7.7 { 0.2 lymph nodes were examined per specimen in Registre des Tumeurs Digestives du Calvados, the 851 patients for whom the number of lymph nodes examined was known. The CJF INSERM, Caen, France.

proportion of cases classified as N/ increased significantly with the number of 2 Registre des Tumeurs Digestives du Calvados, examined lymph nodes (chi-square trend Å 24.6; P õ 0.0001). If the probability CJF INSERM, Caen, France.

of correct lymph node status assessment is 1 in the reference group (comprised of pathology reports of specimens with ¢ 16 examined lymph nodes), the probabil-3 Registre des Cancers du Tarn, Albi, France.

ity of correct N//N-dichotomization was significantly õ 1 for the 1 to 3 lymph 4 Registre du Cancer du Doubs, Besanc ¸on, nodes group and the 4 to 7 lymph nodes group (i.e., 53.7% of cases). France.

CONCLUSIONS.

To comply with current rules for adjuvant chemotherapy, surgeons

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