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

Table 5

Summary of 55 cases in which second lymph node search helped to achieve a minimum of 12 lymph nodes.

Mean number of initial sections for lymph nodes	7.8 ± 5.8
Mean number of lymph nodes retrieved initially	7.1 ± 3.3 (1.3 ± 0.8/cassette)
Mean number of additional sections for lymph nodes	14.4 ± 15.8
Mean number of additional lymph nodes	9.0 ± 4.2 (1.0 ± 0.8/cassette)
Mean number of total lymph nodes	16.1 ± 3.2