Correlation of macroscopic and histological characteristics in the regional lymph nodes of patients with rectal and sigmoidal adenocarcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 433-438

  Bjelovic, Milos ^a   Kalezic, Vasilije ^a   Petrovic, Milentije ^b   Pesko, Predrag ^a   Usaj, Slavica Knezevic ^b   Marinkovic, Jelena ^a   Radovanovic, Nebojsa ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Colorectal carcinoma; Lymph node involvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0031971897     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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