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作者

Gui-Jie Liu Xue-Hua Li Yan-Xin Chen Hui-Dong Sun Gui-Mei Zhao San-Yuan Hu

作者单位

Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University；Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liaocheng People’s Hospital and Liaocheng Clinical School of Taishan Medical University

刊名

世界胃肠病学杂志(英文版)

年份

2013

卷号

第19卷

期号

第31期

页码

5150-5158

ISSN

1007-9327

关键词

Gallbladder neoplasms Lymphatic metastasis Lymph node excision Lymph node ratio Prognosis

分类号

R737.14

摘要

AIM: To investigate the lymph node metastasis patterns of gallbladder cancer(GBC) and evaluate the optimal categorization of nodal status as a critical prognostic factor.METHODS: From May 1995 to December 2010,a total of 78 consecutive patients with GBC underwent a radical resection at Liaocheng People’s Hospital.A radical resection was defined as removing both the primary tumor and the regional lymph nodes of the gallbladder.Demographic,operative and pathologic data were recorded.The lymph node...更多

AIM: To investigate the lymph node metastasis patterns of gallbladder cancer(GBC) and evaluate the optimal categorization of nodal status as a critical prognostic factor.METHODS: From May 1995 to December 2010,a total of 78 consecutive patients with GBC underwent a radical resection at Liaocheng People’s Hospital.A radical resection was defined as removing both the primary tumor and the regional lymph nodes of the gallbladder.Demographic,operative and pathologic data were recorded.The lymph nodes retrieved were examined histologically for metastases routinely from each node.The positive lymph node count(PLNC) as well as the total lymph node count(TLNC) was recorded for each patient.Then the metastatic to examined lymph nodes ratio(LNR) was calculated.Disease-specific survival(DSS) and predictors of outcome were analyzed.RESULTS: With a median follow-up time of 26.50 mo(range,2-132 mo),median DSS was 29.00 ± 3.92 mo(5-year survival rate,20.51%).Nodal disease was found in 37 patients(47.44%).DSS of node-negative patients was significantly better than that of nodepositive patients(median DSS,40 mo vs 17 mo,χ2= 14.814,P < 0.001),while there was no significant difference between N1 patients and N2 patients(median DSS,18 mo vs 13 mo,χ2= 0.741,P = 0.389).Optimal TLNC was determined to be four.When node-negative patients were divided according to TLNC,there was no difference in DSS between TLNC < 4 subgroup and TLNC ≥ 4 subgroup(median DSS,37 mo vs 54 mo,χ2 = 0.715,P = 0.398).For node-positive patients,DSS of TLNC < 4 subgroup was worse than that of TLNC ≥ 4 subgroup(median DSS,13 mo vs 21 mo,χ2= 11.035,P < 0.001).Moreover,for node-positive patients,a new cut-off value of six nodes was identified for the number of TLNC that clearly stratified them into 2 separate survival groups(< 6 or ≥ 6,respectively;median DSS,15 mo vs 33 mo,χ2= 11.820,P < 0.001).DSS progressively worsened with increasing PLNC and LNR,but no definite cut-off value could be identified.Multivariate analysis revealed histological grade,tumor node metastasis staging,TNLC and LNR to be independent predictors of DSS.Neither location of positive lymph nodes nor PNLC were identified as an independent variable by multivariate analysis.CONCLUSION: Both TLNC and LNR are strong predictors of outcome after curative resection for GBC.The retrieval and examination of at least 6 nodes can influence staging quality and DSS,especially in nodepositive patients.收起

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【教育部学科】医学

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