Does obesity influence lymph node harvest among patients undergoing colectomy for colon cancer?

American Surgeon

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1073-1077

  Damadi, Amir A ^a   Julien, Lucas ^a   Arrangoiz, Rodrigo ^a   Raiji, Manish ^a   Weise, David ^b   Saxe, Andrew W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCLAREN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58149395893     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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