The clinical significance of the intraoperative pathological examination of bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes using frozen sections in cervical field lymph node dissection of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

摘要

BackgroundThe aim of this study was to evaluate intraoperative pathological examination of the left and right recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes (LNs) using frozen section as a predictor of cervical LN metastasis.