Importance of extended lymphadenectomy with lateral node dissection for advanced lower rectal cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 728-732

  Moriya, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugihara, Kenichi ^a   Akasu, Takayuki ^a   Fujita, Shin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030793944     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900298     Document Type: Review

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