Lymph node harvest in colon cancer specimens depends on tumour factors, patients and doctors, but foremost on specimen handling

APMIS

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-134

  Storli, Kristian ^a   Lindboe, Christian Fredrik ^b   Kristoffersen, Camilla ^a   Kleiven, Karina ^a   Søndenaa, Karl ^a,c  

^a Haraldsplass Deaconal Hospital   (Norway)

^b Sørlandet Hospital Health Enterprise   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Histology; Lymph nodes; Pathology; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 78650813385     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2010.02702.x     Document Type: Article

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