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• Annals of surgery · Dec 2018

  Comment Letter

  Response: "Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases: When Definitions Matter to Appropriately Assess Extreme Liver Resection Techniques".

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• Annals of surgery · Dec 2018

  Comment Letter

  Response: Pylorus Resection Does Not Reduce Delayed Gastric Emptying After Partial Pancreatoduodenectomy: A Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.

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• Annals of surgery · Dec 2018

  Comment Letter

  Combining the Old With the New: The Next Journey of the Clinical Risk Score.

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• Annals of surgery · Dec 2018

  Comment Letter

  Response: "A Propensity Score-matched Analysis of Open Versus Minimally Invasive Transthoracic Esophagectomy in the Netherlands".

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• Annals of surgery · Dec 2018

  Multicenter Study

  Impact of Extracapsular Lymph Node Involvement After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy Followed by Surgery in Carcinoma of the Esophagus: A Multicenter Study.

  The current study aims to examine the impact of extracapsular lymph node involvement (EC-LNI) on survival for both esophageal adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (nCRT) followed by surgery. ⋯ Based on this international multicenter study, the presence of EC-LNI after nCRT is at least as important as N-stage for survival and EC-LNI is the strongest prognosticator for overall survival in SCC but not in AC.

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