Predicting the risk of metachronous colorectal cancer in patients with rectosigmoid adenomas using quantitative pathological features. A case- control study

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-70

  Meijer, Gerrit A ^d   Baak, Jan P A ^a   Talbot, Ian C ^b   Atkin, Wendy S ^c   Meuwissen, Stefan G M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Colorectal adenoma; Colorectal cancer; Metachronous cancer; Morphometry; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM ADENOMA;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL NUCLEUS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031884414     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199801)184:1<63::AID-PATH974>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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