Current status in remnant gastric cancer after distal gastrectomy

Table 3 The incidence of lymph node metastases of remnant gastric cancer and primary proximal gastric cancer in the splenic hilar region, around the splenic artery, in the lower mediastinum, and in the jejunal mesentery

Ref.	No. of patients		Splenic hilar(No. 10)	Splenic artery(No. 11)	Lower mediastinum		Jejunal mesentery lymph node metastases
					No. 110	No. 111
Sasako et al[59] 1991	RGC	52	15.2%	23.5%	-	-	15.2%
	PPGC	656	10.4%	10.4%	-	-	-
Ikeguchi et al[60] 1994	RGC	20	0%	25.0%	-	-	10.0%
	PPGC	266	11.3%	15.4%	-	-	-
Thorban et al[57] 2000	RGC	47	-	-	-	-	31.9%
	PPGC	498	-	-	-	-	-
Tanigawa et al[8] 2002	RGC	32	8.3%	9.1%	-	50.0%	60.0%
	PPGC	310	16.7%	21.7%	-	6.7%	-
Han et al[61] 2003	RGC	67	60.0%	72.3%	-	50.0%	16.7%
	PPGC	-	-	-	-	-	-
Schaefer et al[24] 2007	RGC	19	-	-	-	-	22.2%
	PPGC	194	-	-	-	-	-
Li et al[62] 2012	RGC	83	21.4%	14.2%	33.3%	33.3%	54.5%
	PPGC	300	36.4%	16.7%	13.6%	13.0%	-
Komatsu et al[63] 2012	RGC	33	12.1%	-	-	-	67.0%
	PPGC	207	6.8%	-	-	-	-
Leo et al[31] 2014	RGC	176	10.0%	7.1%	-	-	46.4%
	PPGC	-	-	-	-	-	-

RGC: Remnant gastric cancer; PPGC: Primary proximal gastric cancer.