Substaging Nodal Status in Ampullary Carcinomas has Significant Prognostic Value: Proposed Revised Staging Based on an Analysis of 313 Well-Characterized Cases


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Balci S., Basturk O., Saka B., Bagci P., Postlewait L. M., Tajiri T., ...Daha Fazla

ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, cilt.22, sa.13, ss.4392-4401, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

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Current nodal staging (N-staging) of ampullary carcinoma in the TNM staging system distinguishes between node-negative (N0) and node-positive (N1) disease but does not consider the metastatic lymph node (LN) number.