Figure 19.

This image shows another lymph node (LN) in the lienorenal ligament close to the hilum of the spleen and can be included either in station 11d or 10. The station 10 LN lies more close to the pancreatic tail whereas station 11d lies near the upper border of the body of pancreas. On endoscopic ultrasonography a demarcation of the point where the body of PAN becomes tail can be seen when the renal artery and renal vein are no longer visualized because of the entry into to the hilum of the left kidney. So the inclusion of this LN can be done in station 10