On the use and abuse of X in the TNM classification

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 647-649

  Greene, Frederick L ^a   Brierley, James ^b   O'Sullivan, Brian ^b   Sobin, Leslie H ^c   Wittekind, Christian ^d  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 12744280717     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20808     Document Type: Article

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