Response to the Comment on "Mapping of Lymph Node Metastasis From Esophagogastric Junction Tumors"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
² Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
³ Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Comment

Yukinori Kurokawa et al. Ann Surg. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e682-e683.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003814.

¹ Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
² Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
³ Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Mapping of Lymph Node Metastasis From Esophagogastric Junction Tumors: A Prospective Nationwide Multicenter Study.
Kurokawa Y, Takeuchi H, Doki Y, Mine S, Terashima M, Yasuda T, Yoshida K, Daiko H, Sakuramoto S, Yoshikawa T, Kunisaki C, Seto Y, Tamura S, Shimokawa T, Sano T, Kitagawa Y. Kurokawa Y, et al. Ann Surg. 2021 Jul 1;274(1):120-127. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003499. Ann Surg. 2021. PMID: 31404008
Comment on "Mapping of Lymph Node Metastasis From Esophagogastric Junction Tumors".
Zhao B, Liang R, Li G. Zhao B, et al. Ann Surg. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e681-e682. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003815. Ann Surg. 2021. PMID: 32282378 No abstract available.

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