Lymph node size and its association with nodal metastasis in ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas

• Main Authors: Jaehoon Shin (Author), Seungbeom Shin (Author), Jae Hoon Lee (Author), Ki Byung Song (Author), Dae Wook Hwang (Author), Hyoung Jung Kim (Author), Jae Ho Byun (Author), HyungJun Cho (Author), Song Cheol Kim (Author), Seung-Mo Hong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Although lymph node metastasis is a poor prognostic factor in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), our understanding of lymph node size in association with PDAC is limited. Increased nodal size in preoperative imaging has been used to detect node metastasis. We evaluated...