Yuexiang Liang, Liangliang Wu, Xiaona Wang, Xuewei Ding, Hongmin Liu, Bin Li, Baogui Wang, Yuan Pan, Rupeng Zhang, Ning Liu, Han Liang
BACKGROUND: D2 lymphadenectomy has been increasingly regarded as standard surgical procedure for advanced gastric cancer (GC), while the necessity of No.14v lymph node (14v) dissection for distal GC is still controversial. METHODS: A total of 920 distal GC patients receiving at least a D2 lymph node dissection in Department of Gastric Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital were enrolled in this study, of whom, 243 patients also had the 14v dissected...
December 2015: Chinese Journal of Cancer Research