The Significance of Splenectomy for Advanced Proximal Gastric Cancer

Figure 4

Effect index of estimated benefit from lymphadenectomy in ST group. The index was calculated by multiplication of the frequency of metastasis to the station and the 5-year survival rate of patients with metastasis to that station. The index of estimated benefit of No. 10 was approximately equal to that of No. 9, No. 11p, No. 11d, and No. 16.