Clinical significance of lymphatic invasion in the esophageal region in patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction.

Shizuki SugitaTakeshi KuwataMasanori TokunagaAkio KaitoMasahiro WatanabeAkiko TonouchiTakahiro KinoshitaMasato Nagino

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2020)

Positive eLI was strongly associated with mediastinal and abdominal LNM and worse survival in patients with AEG compared with gLI. In the histopathological examination, it seems to make sense to assess eLI and gLI separately.

Keyphrases

lymph node
cell migration
squamous cell carcinoma
locally advanced
free survival
radiation therapy
rectal cancer