Carcinoembryonic antigen levels in peritoneal washes: A potential prognostic marker for patients with colorectal cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 52, 2003, Pages 1025-1028

  Abe, Nobutsugu ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Toda, Hiroshi ^b   Machida, Hiromichi ^b   Suzuki, Kazufumi ^b   Masaki, Tadahiko ^a   Sugiyama, Masanori ^a   Atomi, Yutaka ^a   Nakaya, Yuzo ^b  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CEA; Colorectal carcinoma; Peritoneal washes

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY FLUIDS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IRRIGATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038677168     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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