Absence of lymph nodes in the resected specimen after radical surgery for distal rectal cancer and neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy: What does it mean?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-283

  Habr Gama, Angelita ^a   Perez, Rodrigo O ^a,b   Proscurshim, Igor ^a   Rawet, Viviane ^a   Pereira, Diego D ^a   Sousa, Afonso H S ^a   Kiss, Desiderio ^a   Cecconello, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Habr Gama Research Institute ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lymph node; Neoadjuvant therapy; Rectal cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINEURIUM; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 39749125536     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9148-5     Document Type: Article

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