Depth of tumor invasion in locally advanced rectal cancer correlates with patients' prognosis: The usefulness of elastic stain for its measurement

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-122

  Katsumata, Daisuke ^a   Fukui, Hirokazu ^a   Ono, Yuko ^a   Ichikawa, Kazuhito ^a   Tomita, Shigeki ^a   Imura, Johji ^a   Abe, Akihito ^a   Fujita, Masanori ^a   Watanabe, Osamu ^a   Tsubaki, Masahiro ^a   Sunagawa, Masakatsu ^a   Fujimori, Takahiro ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastic stain; Extent of tumor invasion; Rectal cancer; Survival rate; T3

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 38849201696     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3608-3     Document Type: Article

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