Variations of Gastrocolic Trunk of Henle and Its Significance in Gastrocolic Surgery

Table 5

Analysis of number 6 lymph node metastasis in surgery for gastric cancer.

Author	Year	Total metastatic rate (%)	L (%)	M (%)	U (%)
Methasate et al. [18]	2010	N	37.0	41.0	10.0
Han et al. [19]	2011	12.6	18.7	7.1	1.9
Haruta et al. [16]	2013	5.7	N	N	N
Zuo et al. [20]	2014	26.4	34.0	13.9	2.0
Cao et al. [21]	2015	30.6	30.6	N	N

L = lower gastric cancer; M = middle gastric cancer; U = upper gastric cancer; N = not mentioned.