Brief Article
Copyright ©2010 Baishideng.
World J Gastroenterol. Apr 28, 2010; 16(16): 1986-1992
Published online Apr 28, 2010. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i16.1986
Figure 1
Figure 1 Extent of lymph node (LN) metastases and extracapsular LN involvement (LNI), comparing surgery alone with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and surgery. pN0M0: Neoadjuvant CRT resulted in an increase of patients with pN0/M0 compared to surgery alone (P = 0.001); pN1M0: Neoadjuvant CRT did not reduce extracapsular LNI. Caps (-): Without extracapsular LNI; Caps (+): With extracapsular LNI; Neo.: Neoadjuvant.