Prevalence of Regional Lymph Node Metastasis of Mucosal Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma: Analysis of the Collaborative Stage Data Survey of the Korean Central Cancer Registry

Patients with very early-stage gastric signet ring cell carcinoma (SRC) are eligible for minimally invasive treatment, like endoscopic submucosal dissection. However, population-based data on regional lymph node metastasis (LNM) and distant metastasis of gastric SRC are lacking. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of LNM and distant metastasis in mucosal cancer (T1a) of gastric SRC.The Collaborative Stage Data Survey was performed by the...