Response to the Comment on "Optimal Number of Examined Lymph Node May Depend on Age in Patients With Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma"

Lei Huang¹

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Comment

Lei Huang. Ann Surg. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e674-e675.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004449.

Lei Huang¹

¹ Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, China.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Significance of Examined Lymph Node Number in Accurate Staging and Long-term Survival in Resected Stage I-II Pancreatic Cancer-More is Better? A Large International Population-based Cohort Study.
Huang L, Jansen L, Balavarca Y, van der Geest L, Lemmens V, Koerkamp BG, van Santvoort HC, Grützmann R, Besselink MG, Schrotz-King P, Brenner H. Huang L, et al. Ann Surg. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e554-e563. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003558. Ann Surg. 2021. PMID: 31425290
Comment on "Optimal Number of Examined Lymph Node May Dependent on Age in Patients With Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma".
Zheng ZJ, Chen YH, Tan CL, Liu XB. Zheng ZJ, et al. Ann Surg. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e673-e674. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003811. Ann Surg. 2021. PMID: 32209900 No abstract available.

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