Cancer invasion to Auerbach's plexus is an important prognostic factor in patients with pT3-pT4 colorectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1860-1866

  Fujita, Shin ^a   Nakanisi, Yukihiro ^a   Taniguchi, Hirokazu ^a   Yamamoto, Seiichiro ^a   Akasu, Takayuki ^a   Moriya, Yoshihiro ^a   Shimoda, Tadakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auerbach's plexus; Colorectal cancer; Perineural invasion; Prognostic factor

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PERINEURAL INVASION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35948930994     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9072-8     Document Type: Article

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