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Patients without any specified pathological LNM risk factor were included in the LNM low-risk group, while the high-risk group comprised all other patients. We analyzed the LNM predictive ability of each guideline.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The LNM high-risk rate, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, accuracy of LNM risk, and AUC for LNM predictive ability were 82%, 100%, 19%, 9%, 100%, 26% and 0.596 in the JSCCR guidelines; 52%, 98%, 52%, 15%, 99%, 56%, and 0.749 in the NCCN; and 54%, 98%, 50%, 15%, 99%, 54%, and 0.743 in the ESMO, respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The JSCCR guidelines could diagnose LNM in all cases but had the highest false-positive rate. 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