All patients with small intramural rectal cancers are at risk for lymph node metastasis

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 881-885

  Blumberg, David ^a   Paty, Philip B ^a   Guillem, Jose G ^a   Picon, Antonio I ^a   Minsky, Bruce D ^a   Wong, W Douglas ^a   Cohen, Alfred M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Local excision; Lymph nodes; Metastasis; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; EXCISION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; RECTUM CANCER; RELIABILITY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032789962     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02237095     Document Type: Article

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