The number of lymph nodes in colon cancer specimens: What do the numbers really mean?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 770-775

  McPartland, S ^a   Hyman, N ^a   Blaszyk, H ^a   Osler, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Lymph nodes; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL;

EID: 77954799266     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2009.01887.x     Document Type: Article

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