Ultrastaging of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) vs. non-SLNs in colorectal cancer-do we need both?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-358

  Wiese, David ^a   Sirop, Saad ^a   Yestrepsky, Brian ^a   Ghanem, Maher ^a   Bassily, Nader ^a   Ng, Peter ^a   Liu, Weimin ^a   Quiachon, Ernesto ^a   Ahsan, Aamir ^a   Badin, Julio ^a   Saha, Sukamal ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Nonsentinal lymph node; Sentinel lymph node mapping; Ultrastaging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 77649319834     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.08.032     Document Type: Article

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