Identification of lateral pelvic nodes without metastasis in patients with rectal cancer treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy based on magnetic resonance imaging.
Nobuaki HoshinoYudai FukuiKohei UenoKoya HidaKazutaka ObamaKazuhiro SakamotoHirotoshi KobayashiMichio ItabashiSoichiro IshiharaKazushige KawaiYoichi AjiokaPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2024)
Although the short diameter of LPNs was significantly reduced by both CRT and NAC, even LPNs with a short diameter of <5 mm could have residual metastases. However, dissection may be omitted for LPNs <5 mm in short diameter that do not shrink after preoperative CRT or NAC.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- locally advanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- optic nerve
- transcription factor
- patients undergoing
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- computed tomography
- radiation therapy
- heart failure
- sentinel lymph node
- optical coherence tomography
- lymph node
- newly diagnosed
- bioinformatics analysis