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Table 4 Postoperative recurrence of 73 patients with or without pathological LPNM

From: Risk factors and prognostic significance of lateral pelvic lymph node dissection after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal patients with clinically suspected lateral lymph node metastasis

 

Positive LPN

(n = 15)

Negative LPN

(n = 58)

P

Overall recurrence (%)

9 (60.0)

16 (27.6)

0.018

Local recurrence

4 (26.7)

4 (6.9)

0.085

Distant metastasis

6 (40.0)

13 (22.4)

0.292

Liver metastasis

4 (26.7)

7 (12.1)

 

Lung metastasis

1 (6.7)

6 (10.3)

 

Bone metastasis

1 (6.7)

2 (3.4)

 

Peritoneal metastasis

1 (6.7)

0 (0)

 

Others

0 (0)

1 (1.7)

 
  1. LPN lateral pelvic lymph node, LPNM lateral pelvic lymph node metastasis, node dissection
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