Role of “Second Look” Lymph Node Search in Harvesting Optimal Number of Lymph Nodes for Staging of Colorectal Carcinoma

Table 1

Mean number of lymph nodes retrieved in patients who received neoadjuvant therapy and who did not.

	Mean initial lymph nodes	value	Mean total lymph nodes	value
Neoadjuvant therapy	7.8 ± 5.1	0.61	14 ± 6.3	0.59
No therapy	8.7 ± 8.7		15.0 ± 9.0