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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;127:1855-1856
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Extracapsular lymph node involvement in esophageal cancer and number of involved nodes

T. Lerut, MD, PhD, J. Moons, CNS, S. Fieuws, MSc

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University Leuven, UZ Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

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To the Editor:

We thank Dr DeMeester1 for his valuable comments on our article "Extracapsular Lymph Node Involvement Is a Negative Prognostic Factor in T3 Adenocarcinoma of the Distal Esophagus and Gastroesophageal Junction."2 We fully agree with Dr DeMeester1 that the number and characteristics of lymph nodes are very important determinants of survival in esophageal cancer, and we endorse his plea for taking the number of involved nodes into account in the TNM staging system of esophageal cancer.

In his editorial,1 Dr DeMeester made some points that we would like to clarify. With regard to the survival in patients without nodal involvement versus patients with intracapsular nodal involvement, there was . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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