Does obesity impact lymph node retrieval in colon cancer surgery?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 478-482

  Linebarger, Jared H ^a   Mathiason, Michelle A ^a   Kallies, Kara J ^a   Shapiro, Stephen B ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Colon adenocarcinoma; Colon resection; Lymph node retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER STAGING; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77957335247     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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