A predictive model for lymph node yield in colon cancer resection specimens

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-322

  Nash, Garrett M ^a,b   Row, David ^a   Weiss, Alexander ^a   Shia, Jinru ^a   Guillem, Jose G ^a   Paty, Philip B ^a   Gonen, Mithat ^a   R Weiser, Martin ^a   Temple, Larissa K ^a   Fitzmaurice, Garrett ^b   Wong, W Douglas ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TATTOO; TUMOR VOLUME; VASCULAR PEDICLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79151484826     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318204e637     Document Type: Article

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