Specimen length as a perioperative surrogate marker for adequate lymphadenectomy in colon cancer: The surgeon's role

International Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 155-160

  Neufeld, David ^a   Bugyev, Nikolay ^a   Grankin, Mila ^a   Gutman, Mordechay ^a   Klein, Ehud ^a   Bernheim, Joelle ^a   Shpitz, Baruch ^a  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Lymph node; Sigmoidectomy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SIGMOID;

AGED; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35649016617     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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