New approach to the substaging of node-positive colorectal adenocarcinoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-165

  Sternberg, Ahud ^a   Sibirsky, Ohn ^a   Cohen, David ^b   Blumenson, Leslie E ^c   Rodriguez Bigas, Miguel A ^c   Petrelli, Nicholas J ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Node positive colorectal adenocarcinoma; Prognosis; Staging; Substaging; Systemic adjuvant treatment; Venous invasion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0032963864     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10434-999-0161-x     Document Type: Article

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