Lateral pelvic lymph-node dissection: still an option for cure

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-

  Yano, Hideaki ^a   Moran, Brendan J ^b   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^c   Sugihara, Kenichi ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b BASINGSTOKE AND NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; RECTUM TUMOR;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 75249104227     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70361-4     Document Type: Letter

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