Short-term preoperative radiotherapy in rectal cancer patients leads to a reduction of the detectable number of lymph nodes in resection specimens

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 364-368

  Maschuw, K ^a   Kress, R ^a   Ramaswamy, A ^a   Braun, I ^a   Langer, P ^a   Gerdes, B ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Rectal cancer; Short term radiotherapy; TNM; UICC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCISION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33748082324     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0056-2     Document Type: Article

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