Table 2.

Lymph nodes harvested in the CME and CRR groups, n

		CME	CRR	P
Subjects		107	60
Lymph nodes harvested	Stage I	16.7±3.9	13.8±3.2	<0.001
	Stage II	21.4±5.1	13.9±3.7	<0.001
	Stage III	24.8±5.4	16.2±4.1	<0.001
Stage III lymph nodes	Positive (%)	0.17±0.08	0.18±0.08	0.473
Negative lymph nodes	Stage III	20.6±4.6	13.2±3.5	<0.001