Carbon dye staining of sentinel lymph nodes facilitates microstaging of colon cancer patients

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 453-456

  Viehl, Carsten T ^a   Guller, Ulrich ^a   Hamel, Christian T ^a   Riehle, Hans Martin ^b   Plaass, Christian ^c   Marti, Walter R ^a   Oertli, Daniel ^a   Zuber, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Institut Dr Viollier   (Switzerland)

^c Kantonsspital Olten ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON; DYE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; ISOSULFAN BLUE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; STAINING; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBON; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROSANILINE DYES; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 32944466603     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0336-y     Document Type: Article

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