Residual tumor (R) classification in colorectal cancer: Reduced, expanded, or not uniform?

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 288-

  Puppa, Giacomo ^a,b   Bortolasi, Luca ^a   Colombari, Romano ^a   Sheahan, Kieran ^c  

^a 'G Fracastoro' City Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL;

EID: 79952916802     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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