Trends in the Number of Lymph Nodes Evaluated Among Patients with Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors in the United States: A Multi-Institutional and National Database Analysis

Kota Sahara,Diamantis I. Tsilimigras,Rittal Mehta,Amika Moro,Anghela Z. Paredes,Alexandra G. Lopez-Aguiar,Flavio G. Rocha,Zaheer Kanji,Sharon Weber,Alexander V. Fisher,Ryan C. Fields,Bradley A. Krasnick,Kamran Idrees,Paula Marincola Smith,George A. Poultsides,Eleftherios A. Makris,Cliff Cho,Megan Beems,Mary Dillhoff,Shishir K. Maithel,Itaru Endo,Timothy M. Pawlik

Trends in the Number of Lymph Nodes Evaluated Among Patients with Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors in the United States: A Multi-Institutional and National Database Analysis

2019

Background The role of routine lymphadenectomy in the surgical treatment of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) remains poorly defined. The objective of the current study was to investigate trends in the number of lymph nodes (LN) evaluated for pNET treatment at a nationwide level.

Keywords:

Lymphadenectomy
database analysis
Neuroendocrine tumors
Medicine
Lymph
Surgical oncology
General surgery
Radiology
end results
surgical treatment
national database
Epidemiology
Oncology
Internal medicine

Correction
Source
Cite
Save
Machine Reading By IdeaReader

References

Citations