1Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200000, China
2Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100036, China
3Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China
4Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130021, China
5Department of General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
6Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China
7Department of General Surgery, The Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning 116027, China
8Department of Surgical Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, Fujian 362000, China
9Department of Surgical Oncology, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, Xining, Qinghai 810001, China
10Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
11Department of Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery, Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian 650014, China
12Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710061, China
13Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
14Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China
15Department of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
16Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510000, China
17Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, China
18Department of General Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266555, China
19Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361001, China
20Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361004, China
21Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China.
Correspondence to: Lu Zang, Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200000, ChinaE-Mail: [email protected]
How to cite this article: Baheti T, Miao RL, Zhao G, Wang DG, Liu FL, Yu J, Ren SY, Ye K, Yan S, Yang K, Zang WD, Fan L, Liang B, Cai J, Fu WH, Wang W, Li ZR, Niu ZJ, You J, Qiu XF, Song W, Zang L. Infrapyloric lymph node metastasis pattern in middle/lower gastric cancer: an exploratory analysis of a multicenter prospective observational study (IPA-ORIGIN). Chin Med J 2020;133:2759–2761. doi: 10.1097/CM9.0000000000000995
Received 9 March, 2020
Tasiken Baheti and Ru-Lin Miao contributed equally to this work.
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