Laparoscopic Radical Cholecystectomy for Primary or Incidental Early Gallbladder Cancer: The New Rules Governing the Treatment of Gallbladder Cancer

Table 7

Lymphadenectomy.

Author	IAC sampling biopsy	Station of lymph nodes	Number of lymph nodes retrieved
Cho et al. [11]	—	Pericholedochal, hilar, periportal, and common hepatic	8 (4–21)
Gumbs and Hoffman [17]	—	Hepatoduodenal	3
Gumbs and Hoffman [10]	—	Hepatoduodenal	6
Itano et al. [12]	—	Hepatoduodenal ligament (if pT1b); hepatoduodenal ligament and peripancreatic (if pT2)	12.6 ± 3.1
Shirobe and Maruyama [13]	—	Celiac axis, common hepatic, proper hepatic, hepatoduodenal ligament, posterior surface of the pancreas	13.3 ± 2.3
Agarwal et al. [14]	2 (1–3)	Celiac axis, hepatoduodenal ligament (pericholedochal and peri/retroportal included), common hepatic artery, retropancreatic	12.5 ± 5.4; (Primary GBC: 13.6 ± 4.8); (IGBC: 5.5 ± 1.7)
Palanisamy et al. [15]	IAC and celiac (if enlarged)	Posterior surface of the pancreas head and right lateral vena cava; celiac axis, hepatoduodenal ligament, common hepatic artery	8 (4–14)
Machado et al. [18]	—	Extensive hilar and hepatoduodenal ligament	9
Yoon et al. [16]	—	Hepatoduodenal ligament, common hepatic artery	7 (1–15)