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. 2020 Oct 13;18(1):1–24. doi: 10.1007/s10388-020-00785-y

Table 6.

Lymph node metastasis, cN (UICC TNM 7th)

Clinical N Endoscopic treatment Surgery Chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy (%) Total (%)
(%) Esophagectomy (%) Palliative surgery (%)
cN0 1351 (95.1%) 2278 (46.4%) 31 (24.2%) 1117 (27.5%) 4047 (50.5%)
cN1 38 (2.7%) 1704 (34.7%) 37 (28.9%) 1663 (40.9%) 2318 (28.9%)
cN2 22 (1.5%) 800 (16.3%) 43 (33.6%) 1009 (24.8%) 1301 (16.2%)
cN3 10 (0.7%) 128 (2.6%) 17 (13.3%) 273 (6.7%) 353 (4.4%)
Total 1421 4910 128 4062 8019