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Survival of patients with involvement of nodes along the IMA proximal to the origin of the left colic artery (root nodes, station 253) through the bifurcation of the superior rectal artery (trunk nodes, station 252) was determined.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Twenty patients (1\u00b77 per cent) had metastatic involvement of station 253 lymph nodes and 99 (8\u00b73 per cent) had metastases to station 252. 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