Clinical significance of colorectal cancer: Metastases in lymph nodes <5 mm in size

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 124-130

  Rodriguez Bigas, Miguel A ^a   Maamoun, Sherif ^a   Weber, Thomas K ^a   Penetrante, Remedios B ^a   Blumenson, Leslie E ^a   Petrelli, Nicholas J ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Lymph nodes; Metastases

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030094933     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02305790     Document Type: Article

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