Prediction of lymph node metastasis and sentinel node navigation surgery for patients with early-stage gastric cancer

Figure 1 Flow chart for submucosa-invading gastric cancer after ESD. Quoted from Prediction of lymph node metastasis in patients with submucosa-invading early gastric cancer. Adapted from Ref. [27].

Figure 2 Scoring to predict lymph node metastasis and scoring system for additional gastrectomy following endoscopic resection based on prediction of lymph node metastasis. Quoted from Pathological factors related to lymph node metastasis of submucosally invasive gastric cancer: criteria for additional gastrectomy after endoscopic resection. Adapted from Ref. [23].

Figure 3 Sentinel node navigation surgery using infrared ray electronic endoscopy. ICG: Indocyanine green.