Development of a prediction model for the risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph node metastasis in thoracolaparoscopic esophagectomy with cervical anastomosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are no effective preoperative diagnostic measures to predict the probability of left and right recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) lymph node (LN) metastasis using preoperative clinical data in patients undergoing thoracolaparoscopic esophagectomy with cervical anastomosis.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 1,660 consecutive patients with thoracic esophageal cancer who underwent esophagectomy with cervical anastomosis at the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University between January 2015 and December 2020.

Results

A total of 299 and 343 patients who underwent left (Cohort 1) and right (Cohort 2) RLN LN dissection were included in the final analyses. The analyses were conducted within each

SUBMITTER: Zhang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8267307 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature