Potential prognostic benefit of lateral pelvic node dissection for rectal cancer located below the peritoneal reflection

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-87

  Ueno, Hideki ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a   Hashiguchi, Yojiro ^a   Ishiguro, Megumi ^a   Miyoshi, Masayoshi ^a   Kajiwara, Yoshiki ^a   Sato, Taichi ^a   Shimazaki, Hideyuki ^a   Hase, Kazuo ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Self Defense Forces Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845949424     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000225359.72553.8c     Document Type: Article

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