Technical details of sentinel lymph node mapping in colorectal cancer and its impact on staging

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 120-124

  Saha, Sukamal ^a,b,d   Wiese, David ^c   Badin, Julio ^c   Beutler, Thomas ^b   Nora, Dean ^b   Ganatra, B K ^c   Desai, Dilip ^c   Kaushal, S ^c   Nagaraju, M ^c   Arora, Madan ^c   Singh, Trevor ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c McLaren Regional Cancer Center   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Sentinel lymph node mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 17344375110     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10434-000-0120-z     Document Type: Article

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