Pericolonic tumour deposits in colorectal cancer patients: The challenge is on-going

Histopathology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 767-768

  Puppa, G ^a,b   Colombari, R ^a   Pelosi, G ^c,d   Ueno, H ^e  

^a 'G Fracastoro' City Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 42649108697     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.03011.x     Document Type: Letter

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