Diagnostic ability of multi-detector spiral computed tomography for pathological lymph node metastasis of advanced gastric cancer
Zhi-Yong Jiang, Shinichi Kinami, Naohiko Nakamura, Takashi Miyata, Hideto Fujita, Hiroyuki Takamura, Nobuhiko Ueda, Takeo Kosaka
Zhi-Yong Jiang, Shinichi Kinami, Naohiko Nakamura, Takashi Miyata, Hideto Fujita, Hiroyuki Takamura, Nobuhiko Ueda, Takeo Kosaka, Department of Surgical Oncology, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada-machi, Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan
Author contributions: Jiang ZY was responsible for the scientific context and writing of the manuscript. Kinami S was responsible for instructing on the scientific research and writing of the manuscript. Nakamura N, Miyata T, Fujita H, Ueda N, Takamura H and Kosaka T contributed to the literature review; data analysis; drafting, editing, and critical revision of the manuscript; and approval of the final version of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Kanazawa Medical University Hospital.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent. Regarding data use in the retrospective study, the patients were given the opportunity to optout of the study at any time.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to the publication of the study.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Shinichi Kinami, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada-machi, Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan. kinami@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
Received: November 21, 2019
Peer-review started: November 21, 2019
First decision: December 12, 2019
Revised: February 12, 2020
Accepted: February 23, 2020
Article in press: February 23, 2020
Published online: April 15, 2020
