Analysis of the lymph node metastasis distribution in patients with invasive resectable non-small cell lung cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current standard for the surgical management of lung cancer involves anatomic lung resection combined with systemic lymph node dissection/sampling. The purpose of this study was to investigate the patterns of pathological lymph nodes in invasive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), explore the occurrence in lymph node metastasis (LNM), and provide recommendations for optimal lymph node resection/sampling in lung cancer operation.

Methods

There were 1,678 patients with NSCLC who underwent lobectomy between 2018 and 2021 at the Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province were reviewed retrospectively. The location and incidence of LNM and postoperative pathological findings were studied. We analysed the metastasis rates of lymph node dissection stations using Pearson's

SUBMITTER: Xu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11632436 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature