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To explore the prognostic significance of tumor deposits (TDs), isolated tumor foci lacking residual lymph nodes, in esophageal cancer (EC). A retrospective review of patients with EC undergoing esophagectomy between 2005 and 2017 was conducted. The prognostic value of TD was evaluated using a Cox regression model. Patients from different sources and periods were split into discovery and validation sets. A propensity score matching model was used in the validation set to reduce the confounding bias. The impact of TD on the TNM classification syste