Objective criteria for the grading of venous invasion in colorectal cancer

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 454-462

  Sato, Taichi ^a   Ueno, Hideki ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a   Shinto, Eiji ^a   Hashiguchi, Yojiro ^a   Kajiwara, Yoshiki ^a   Shimazaki, Hideyuki ^a   Hase, Kazuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Elastic tissue stain; Venous invasion

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; COLON; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAINING; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAINING AND LABELING; SURVIVAL RATE; VEINS;

EID: 77950212481     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181d296ef     Document Type: Article

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