Is there clinical value to sentinel lymph node sampling in colon cancer?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 841-842

  Sticca, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; COLON CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MELANOMA; MICROMETASTASIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; WOUND COMPLICATION; COLON TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

TUMOR MARKER;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644923508     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.04.5757     Document Type: Editorial

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