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Prophylactic SCLN dissection should be based on an accurate preoperative assessment of SCLN metastasis. We evaluated 199 patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by esophagectomy with three-field lymph node dissection for ESCC. For each patient, the largest SCLN was measured on the left and right sides. Long- and short-axis diameters of 398 SCLNs were measured using computed tomography (CT), and long-to-short-axis ratio was calculated. Diagnostic accuracies of the long- and short-axis diameters and long-to-short-axis ratio were determined using area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic plot. Of the 199 patients, 16.6% had pathological SCLN metastasis. AUCs of the short-axis diameter had the most significant values in the left and right sides compared with the other variables, at 0.93 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.89\u20130.97) for the left side and 0.92 (95% CI: 0.87\u20130.97) for the right side. 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