Histologic features associated with lymph node metastasis in stage T1 and superficial T2 rectal adenocarcinomas in abdominoperineal resection specimens: Identifying a subset of patients for whom treatment with adjuvant therapy or completion abdominoperineal resection should be considered after local excision

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-58

  Goldstein, Neal S ^a   Hart, John ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominoperineal excision; Adenocarcinoma; Adjuvant therapy; Grade; Local excision; Lymph nodes; Metastases; Radiation; Rectum; Vascular invasion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0032925597     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/111.1.51     Document Type: Article

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