The correlation between clinicopathological characteristics and lymph node metastasis in patients of carcinoma of the ampulla and papilla of Vater / 中国普通外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between clinicopathological characteristics and lymph node metastasis for carcinoma of the ampulla and papilla of Vater. Methods In this study, 152 patients with carcinoma of the ampulla and papilla of Vater underwent radical duodenopancreatectomy. Lymph node metastasis was correlated with clinicopathological factors. Results The rate of lymph node metastasis was 31%, that for T1,T2 ,T3, and T4 was 0, 20% (11/54) , 26% (19/72) , and 94% (16/17) , respectively, x2 analysis revealed that lymph node metastasis was associated with tumor size (