The clinical significance of fat clearance lymph node harvest for invasive rectal adenocarcinoma following neoadjuvant therapy

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1767-1773

  Wang, Hao ^a   Safar, Bashar ^a   Wexner, Steven D ^a   Denoya, Paula ^a   Berho, Mariana ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymph nodes; Neoadjuvant therapy; Rectal cancer; Specimen handling

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70350124027     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181b14eaf     Document Type: Article

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