A multicenter cohort study on mapping of lymph node metastasis for splenic flexural colon cancer.
Jun WatanabeYukihide KanemitsuHirokazu SuwaYoshihiro KakejiSoichiro IshiharaEiji ShintoHeita OzawaTakeshi SutoJunichiro KawamuraFumihiko FujitaMichio ItabashiMasayuki OhueHideyuki IkeKenichi Sugiharanull nullPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2022)
This study identified the distribution of lymph node metastases from splenic flexural colon cancer. If the aMCA is present, this vessel should be targeted for dissection, taking into account the frequency of lymph node metastasis.