Table 4 Impact of total number of retrieved lymph nodes on the prognostic performance of node staging schemes for Siewert type II esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma.

From: Prognostic performance of three lymph node staging schemes for patients with Siewert type II adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction

Category (No.)

1–10 nodes (n = 475)

11–20 nodes (n = 565)

≥21 nodes (n = 398)

C-index

AIC

C-index

AIC

C-index

AIC

LNM

0.644(0.613–0.675)

520.874

0.675(0.647–0.703)

591.415

0.688(0.654–0.722)

454.781

LNR

0.652(0.621–0.683)

509.083

0.676(0.647–0.705)

593.208

0.690(0.656–0.724)

442.109

LODDS

0.654(0.621–0.687)

505.314

0.680(0.651–0.709)

573.338

0.690(0.656–0.724)

430.041

  1. LNM: lymph node metastasis.
  2. LNR: positive lymph node ratio.
  3. LODDS: log odds of positive lymph node.
  4. Continuous LNM, LNR and LODDS were included for evaluation.
  5. AIC: Akaike information criterion.
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