Number of lymph nodes examined and associated clinicopathologic factors in colorectal carcinoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 781-786

  Shen, Steven S ^a   Haupt, Bisong X ^b   Ro, Jae Y ^a   Zhu, Jijiang ^b   Bailey, H Randoph ^b   Schwartz, Mary R ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CECUM CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 65649103343     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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