Further Classification for Node-Positive Gastric Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.
Linda M PakTingsong YangJiping WangPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)
The number of metastatic lymph nodes is an independent prognostic factor in GNEN. Current AJCC N1 disease contains two groups of patients with distinctive prognoses, hence needs to be subclassified into pN1 (1-6 positive lymph nodes) and pN2 (> 6 positive nodes).