EOD Regional Nodes

This input is used for staging

Notes

**Note 1:** Code only regional nodes and nodes, NOS in this field. Distant nodes are coded in EOD Mets. **Note 2:** Code 800 if regional lymph nodes are involved, but there is no indication which ones are involved.

Default

999

NAACCR Item

NAACCR #774

Code	Description	SS2018 N
000	No regional lymph node involvement	NONE
300	Celiac artery Common hepatic artery Hepatic, NOS Left gastric (superior gastric), NOS - Cardial, NOS - Cardioesophageal - Gastric artery - Gastric, left - Gastrohepatic - Gastropancreatic, left - Lesser curvature - Lesser omentum - Paracardial Pancreaticosplenic (pancreaticolineal) Perigastric, NOS Peripancreatic Pyloric, NOS - Infrapyloric (subpyloric) - Suprapyloric Right gastric (inferior gastric, NOS) - Gastrocolic - Gastroduodenal - Gastroepiploic (gastro-omental), right or NOS - Gastrohepatic - Greater curvature - Greater omentum - Pancreaticoduodenal Splenic (lineal), NOS - Gastroepiploic (gastro-omental), left - Splenic hilar/hilum Nodule(s) in perigastric fat	RN
700	Lesser curvature (C165) - Hepatoduodenal	D
800	Regional lymph node(s), NOS Lymph node(s), NOS	RN
999	Unknown; regional lymph node(s) not stated Regional lymph node(s) cannot be assessed Not documented in medical record Death Certificate Only	U

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