Circumferential margin involvement is still an important predictor of local recurrence in rectal carcinoma: Not one millimeter but two millimeters is the limit

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 350-357

  Nagtegaal, Iris D ^a,b   Marijnen, Corrie A M ^a   Kranenbarg, Elma Klein ^a   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^a   Van Krieken, J Han J M ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circumferential margin; Distant metastases; Local recurrence; Rectal carcinoma; TME surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036190416     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200203000-00009     Document Type: Article

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