Prognostic significance of extranodal microscopic foci discontinuous with primary lesion in rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-61

  Ueno, Hideki ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a   Tamakuma, Shoetsu ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extranodal cancer permeation; Lymph node metastasis; Microscopic cancer permeation; Pelvic recurrence; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PALPATION; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL RISK; TUMOR RECURRENCE; URINARY DYSFUNCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031974065     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02236896     Document Type: Article

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