Proposal of the optimal numbers of examined and positive lymph nodes to the 8th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging for 758 patients with distal cholangiocarcinoma

• RuiYang Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

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• Gang Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Sichuan Provincial Hospital for Women and Children, Chengdu, China

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• Jiao Feng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

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• Liang Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

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• ZhiMing Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yangzmmd@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7878-5958

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