Quantitating the Impact of Stage Migration on Staging Accuracy in Colorectal Cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 882-887

  Namm, Jukes ^a   Ng, Melody ^a   Roy Chowdhury, Sharmila ^a   Morgan, John W ^a,b   Lum, Sharon S ^a   Wong, Jan H ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56149107097     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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