Prognosis of metastatic splenic hilum lymph node in patients with gastric cancer after total gastrectomy and splenectomy

Figure 1 Location of regional lymph nodes. No. 2: Left Pericardial LN, No. 3: LN along the lesser curvature, No. 4sa: LN along the short gastric vessels, No. 4sb: LN along the left gastroepiploic vessels, No. 4d: LN along the right gastroepiploic vessels, No. 7: LN along the left gastric artery, No. 11: LN along the splenic artery.

Figure 2 Overall survival curves in patients with gastric cancer. No. 10 (+): Patients with No. 10 LN metastasis; No. 10 (-): Patients without No. 10 LN metastasis. The Cox-Mantel test was not significant. A: Stage IIIB; B: Stage IV.