Development and validation of nodal staging score in pN0 patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A population study from the SEER database and a single‐institution cohort

Abstract Background Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) with lymph node metastasis may be misclassified as pN0 due to an insufficient number of lymph nodes examined (LNE). The purpose of this study was to confirm that patients with ESCC are indeed pN0 and to propose an adequate n...

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Main Authors: Haitong Wang, Yueyang Yang, Kai zhu, Ningning Zhu, Lei Gong, Hongdian Zhang, Mingquan Ma, Peng Ren, Yufeng Qiao, Xiangming Liu, Peng Tang, Zhentao Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-12-01
Series:Thoracic Cancer
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.14670