Potential pathological understaging of pT3 rectal cancer with less than 26 lymph nodes recovered: A prospective study based on a resampling of 50 rectal specimens

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 449, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 647-651

  Greco, Paolo ^a   Andreola, Salvatore ^b   Magro, Gaetano ^a   Belli, Filiberto ^b   Giannone, Giorgio ^c   Gallino, Gian Francesco ^b   Leo, Ermanno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c GARIBALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lymph node yield; Perirectal tissue sampling; Quality standard; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATHOLOGIST; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; SAMPLING;

HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751544199     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-006-0313-3     Document Type: Article

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