Number of retrieved lymph nodes and survival in node-negative patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery for cancer

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-152

  Nir, S ^a   Greenberg, R ^a   Shacham Shmueli, E ^a   White, I ^a   Schneebaum, S ^a   Avital, S ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Laparoscopic surgery; Lymph nodes; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955715712     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-010-0578-z     Document Type: Article

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