Lymph node retrieval in rectal cancer is dependent on many factors-the role of the tumor, the patient, the surgeon, the radiotherapist, and the pathologist

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1547-1553

  Mekenkamp, Leonie J M ^a   Van Krieken, Johan H J M ^a   Marijnen, Corrie A M ^b   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^c   Nagtegaal, Iris D ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Radiotherapy ^*

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Preoperative radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Recurrence free interval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGIST; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM CANCER; SURGEON; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349680452     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181b2e01f     Document Type: Article

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