@article{TGC2086,
author = {Thomas W. Rice and Eugene H. Blackstone},
title = {Optimal lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer: is there a magic number?},
journal = {Translational Gastrointestinal Cancer},
volume = {0},
number = {0},
year = {2013},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Xu and colleagues propose the ambitious tasks of evaluating in gastric cancer patients “the long-term effect of number of examined lymph nodes on the prognosis of patients,” and exploring “the optimal number of lymph nodes for accurate staging in patients with node-negative gastric cancer after D2 dissection” (1). These two distinctly different goals require very dissimilar analytic strategies. To our surprise, they report one number, not two: 16. The question persists—“Is there a magic number of resected lymph nodes that ensures an optimal lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer?”},
url = {https://tgc.amegroups.com/article/view/2086}
}