Risk Factors for Metastasis to No.253 Lymph Node for Colorectal Cancer Patients

Background: No.253 lymph nodes metastasis is related to poor prognosis of colorectal cancer, while the role of No.253 lymph nodes dissection in colorectal cancer is still controversial.Methods: A total of 157 patients who were received laparoscopic radical resection of colorectal cancer with preservation of the left colon artery + D3 lymph node dissection (low ligation + high dissection) in our hospital were enrolled. No.253 lymph nodes of each patients were dissected and sent for examination. Clinicaopathological factors correlated with No.253 lymph nodes metastasis, including gender, age, tumor location, tumor size, length of tumor from the anus, whether lymphovascular invasion, whether perineural invasion, tumor markers CEA, CA125 and CA199, tumor T stage, whether it is distant metastasis, the total number of lymph nodes harvested, tumor type, and histologic grade were respectively analyzed.Results: A total of 2286 lymph nodes were sent for examination, of which 557 No.253 lymph nodes were sent for examination. Among them, 5 patients had a total of 27 No.253 lymph node metastases. Preoperative CA125 level (X2=4.736, p=0.030), whether perineural invasion (X2=8.086, p<0.01), whether lymphovascular invasion (X2= 7.053, p<0.01), tumor type (X2=21.019, p<0.01), histologic grade (X2=15.315, p<0.01) were significantly correlated with positive No.253 lymph nodes metastasis. A multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that none of risk factor from above are independent risk factors for No.253 lymph node metastasis(P>0.05).Conclusion: Preoperative CA125 level, whether perineural invasion, whether lymphovascular invasion, tumor type, histologic grade were risk factors of the No.253 lymph nodes metastasis. Multivariate analysis showed that five risk factors from above were not the independent risk factor for No.253 lymph nodes metastasis. Colorectal cancer patients with the risk factors above were suggested to receive radical resection + D3 lymph node dissection.

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