Lymph Node Ratio Is an Independent Prognostic Factor After Resection of Periampullary Malignancies: Data From a Tertiary Referral Center in the Middle East

The prognostic impact of nodal involvement in resected pancreatic carcinoma and biliary malignancy has been relatively well established. It has been suggested that lymph node ratio (LNR) may be a more informative way of stratifying patients with node positive disease. Our retrospective review aimed...

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Hauptverfasser: SHAMSEDDINE, Ali I, MUKHERJI, Deborah, MELKI, Christian, ELIAS, Elias, ELOUBEIDI, Mohammad, DIMASSI, Hani, KHALIFE, Mohammad, ABOU-ALFA, Ghassan, O'REILLY, Eileen, FARAJ, Walid
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description The prognostic impact of nodal involvement in resected pancreatic carcinoma and biliary malignancy has been relatively well established. It has been suggested that lymph node ratio (LNR) may be a more informative way of stratifying patients with node positive disease. Our retrospective review aimed to investigate the significance of such variables and test for independent prognostic factors for survival. One hundred eighty-three pancreatic and periampullary malignancy cases were registered at the American University of Beirut Medical Center from 1990 to 2004. Of those, 80 had complete data on lymph node status. We analyzed the impact of the number of lymph nodes resected, the number of positive lymph nodes retrieved and LNR using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazard models. The measured outcome in the KM model was the survival probability at 1, 3, and 5 years while the Cox model was used to measure the hazard ratio (HR) of the previously identified predictors on survival. For the 80 patients included in this analysis, overall survival rates were 65% (54 to 78), 32% (18 to 47), and 21% (8 to 34) were alive at 1, 3, and 5 years, respectively. The median number of resected lymph nodes was 9. In the node positive patients, those who had >12 nodes examined were found to have a significantly better survival (HR=0.24; P=0.013). On multivariate analysis, our model showed the following factors to be significant: age 60 years or older (HR=5.92; P=0.018), poorly differentiated tumors (HR=21.87; P=0.018), number of lymph nodes examined
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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Antineoplastic agents
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen
Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases
Humans
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Lebanon
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Lymph Node Excision
Lymph Nodes - pathology
Lymphatic Metastasis
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Multiple tumors. Solid tumors. Tumors in childhood (general aspects)
Neoplasm Staging
Pancreatic Neoplasms - mortality
Pancreatic Neoplasms - pathology
Pancreatic Neoplasms - surgery
Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Predictive Value of Tests
Prognosis
Proportional Hazards Models
Retrospective Studies
Tertiary Care Centers
Tumors
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