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Correction to: Predictive risk factors for lymph node metastasis in patients with resected non-small cell lung cancer: a case control study Yusef Moulla1*, Tanja Gradistanac2, Christian Wittekind2, Uwe Eichfeld1, Ines Gockel1 and Arne Dietrich1 Correction to: J Cardiothorac Surg https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-019-0831-0 The original article [1] contains slight errors whereby several terms in the first column of Tables 1, 2, and 3 have an erroneous ‘p’ preceding them. The correct presentation of these tables can be viewed ahead. Author details 1 Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. 2Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. Received: 24 January 2019 Accepted: 24 January 2019

Reference 1. Moulla Y, et al. Predictive risk factors for lymph node metastasis in patients with resected non-small cell lung cancer: a case control study. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019;14:11 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-019-0831-0.

* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

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Table 1 Main characteristics of the patients, pTNM-Classification 2017, 8th Edition Characteristics

Number of Patients (n)

Percentage

central

53

26.2%

peripheral

149

73.8%

adenocarcinoma

117

57.4%

SCCa

75

36.8%

others

12

5.9%

Tumor-localization

Histology

Grading In situ

2

1%

G1

25

12.4%

G2

95

47.0%

G3

68

33.3%

G4

12

5.9%

pT-category pTis

2

1%

pT1

90

45.1%

pT1a

10

4.9%

pT1b

37

18.1%

pT1c

43

21.1%

44

26.5

pT2a

39

19.1%

pT2b

15

7.4%

pT3

35

17.2%

pT4

23

11.3

pN0

126

61.8%

pN1

33

16.2%

pN2

45

22%

193

94.5%

pM1a

5

2.5%

pM1b

5

2.5%

pM1c

1

0.5%

L0

57

28.1%

L1

146

71.9%

V0

165

81.3%

V1

38

18.7%

pT2

pN-category

pM-category pM0

L-Status

V-Status

a

SCC Squamous cell carcinoma

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Table 2 Univariate Analysis of positive pulmonary and mediastinal lymph nodes (pN1+, pN2+) Variables

pN1- (%)

pN1+ (%)

pN2- (%)

pN2+ (%)

male

90