Visualization of patterns of lymph node metastases in non–small cell lung cancer using network analysis

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to visualize complicated patterns of lymph node metastases in surgically resected non–small cell lung cancer by applying a data mining technique.

Methods

In this retrospective study, 783 patients underwent lobectomy or pneumonectomy with systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection for non–small cell lung cancer between January 2010 and December 2018. Surgically resected lymph nodes were classified according to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer lymph node map. Network analysis generated patterns of lymph node metastases from stations 1 to 14, and the degree of connection between 2 lymph node stations was assessed.

Results

The median number of lymph nodes examined per patient was 20, and the pathological N category was p

SUBMITTER: Yoshida Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9801281 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature