Small, flat colorectal cancers in the UK population: An analysis of resected specimens

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 641-646

  Tweedle, E M ^a   Chaudhri, S ^a   Azadeh, B ^a   Rooney, P S ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal; Depressed; Flat; Metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER TISSUE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547894214     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2006.01205.x     Document Type: Article

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