Adequacy of Lymph Node Dissection Should be Taken into Consideration While Determining the Prognostic Significance of the Lymph Node Ratio: In Regard to Kim et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009;74:796-802)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1625-

  Dane, Faysal ^a   Öztürk, Mehmet Akif ^a   Turhal, Serdar ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; LETTER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 71649094475     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1719     Document Type: Letter

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