Effects of initial disease status on lymph flow following gastrectomy in cases of carcinoma in the remnant stomach.
Shinsaku HondaEtsuro BandoRie MakuuchiMasanori TokunagaYutaka TanizawaTaiichi KawamuraTeiichi SugiuraYusuke KinugasaKatsuhiko UesakaMasanori TerashimaPublished in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2016)
As compared with group B, group M showed higher incidences of lymph node metastasis in the greater curvature, splenic hilum, and lymph nodes along the splenic artery, suggesting the predominance of lymphatic flows from the greater curvature to the splenic hilum and from the remnant stomach to the splenic artery.