Table 4 Initial postoperative recurrence site details in patients with or without clinical mediastinal/abdominal lymph node metastases
Initial recurrence pattern | Variables | All patients (N = 157) | (Recurrence sitea) | cMLNMb | cALNMc | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Absent (N = 106) | Present (N = 51) | Absent (N = 112) | Present (N = 45) | |||||||||
Locoregional recurrence | Absent | 127 | 90 | 37 | 93 | 34 | ||||||
Present | Cervical lymph node | 30 | (11) | 16 | (6) | 14 | (5) | 19 | (5) | 11 | (6) | |
Mediastinal local or lymph node | (25) | (12) | (13) | (13) | (12) | |||||||
Abdominal lymph node | (10) | (7) | (3) | (5) | (5) | |||||||
Systemic recurrence | Absent | 132 | 93 | 39 | 102 | 30 | ||||||
Present | Lung | 25 | (9) | 13 | (4) | 12 | (5) | 10 | (3) | 15 | (6) | |
Liver | (6) | (3) | (3) | (2) | (4) | |||||||
Para-abdominal aortic lymph node | (6) | (5) | (1) | (2) | (4) | |||||||
Pleura | (9) | (3) | (6) | (4) | (5) | |||||||
Others (Adrenal gland, bone, or ventricle) | (4) | (2) | (2) | (1) | (3) | |||||||