Comment on "lymph nodes after preoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal carcinoma: Number, status, and impact on survival"

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1107-

  Sprenger, Thilo ^a   Rothe, Hilka ^a   Langer, Claus ^a   Becker, Heinz ^a   Liersch, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM RESECTION; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649516193     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31819ca2a4     Document Type: Letter

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