Reduced lymph node yield in rectal carcinoma specimen after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy has no prognostic relevance

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 340-347

  Doll, Dietrich ^a   Gertler, Ralf ^a   Maak, Matthias ^a   Friederichs, Jan ^a   Becker, Karen ^a   Geinitz, Hans ^a   Kriner, Monika ^a   Nekarda, Hjalmar ^a   Siewert, Jörg R ^a   Rosenberg, Robert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 58149469553     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9838-8     Document Type: Article

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