Lymph node level ratio: Are we relying too much on numbers?
Lymph node level ratio
Nodal yield
Overall survival
Journal
Oral oncology
ISSN: 1879-0593
Titre abrégé: Oral Oncol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9709118
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
18 Dec 2023
18 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
08
12
2023
accepted:
10
12
2023
medline:
19
12
2023
pubmed:
19
12
2023
entrez:
19
12
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
The lymph node level ratio appears to be a continuation of nodal yield and nodal density, two prognostic metrics already in use. A retrospective analysis conducted in the current study showed that a value of fewer than 4 lymph nodes/level is linked to a lower overall and disease-specific survival. This letter aims to review the reasoning behind the use of node level ratios and nodal yields as quality and prognostic indicators, and to explore possible factors that could affect these.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38113662
pii: S1368-8375(23)00359-7
doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2023.106663
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
106663Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.