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To assess lymph node status, prognostic impact, and the therapeutic efficacy of routine regional and para-aortic lymphadenectomy during radical surgery for advanced gallbladder cancer.

April 1, 2000British journal of surgery

Regional and para-aortic lymphadenectomy in radical surgery for advanced gallbladder carcinoma

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SKSatoshi KondoMuroran Institute of Technology YNY NimuraHiroshima University NHNaokazu HayakawaObayashi (Japan)

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Retrospective analysis reveals no survival benefit from para-aortic lymphadenectomy in advanced gallbladder cancer, suggesting extensive dissection should target only regional nodal disease.

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To assess lymph node status, prognostic impact, and the therapeutic efficacy of routine regional and para-aortic lymphadenectomy during radical surgery for advanced gallbladder cancer.
Retrospective analysis of N=60 patients undergoing radical resection along with routine regional and para-aortic lymph node dissection.
Overall, 73% of patients had node-positive disease and 38% harbored positive para-aortic lymph nodes.
Postoperative survival in patients with para-aortic involvement was extremely poor and comparable to outcomes in patients with minimal distant metastasis.
Patients with metastases confined solely to regional lymph nodes experienced significantly improved survival compared to those with distant metastasis (P = 0.029) or para-aortic involvement (P = 0.017), showing no significant difference versus node-negative patients (P = 0.82).

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Kondo et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa4e20bf197b883c13d635e https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2168.2000.01384.x

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Retrospective analysis reveals no survival benefit from para-aortic lymphadenectomy in advanced gallbladder cancer, suggesting extensive dissection should target only regional nodal disease.

Regional and para-aortic lymphadenectomy in radical surgery for advanced gallbladder carcinoma

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Regional and para-aortic lymphadenectomy in radical surgery for advanced gallbladder carcinoma

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