Total Lymphadenectomy and Nodes-Based Prognostic Factors in Surgical Intervention for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

The total number of lymph nodes to be removed in total and within each T stage indicated as thresholds could not be reached in up to 38.6% of patients. The metastatic lymph nodes/lymph nodes yield ratio not the total LNY, did correlate with cancer-specific survival.