To be or not to be: Significance of lymph nodes on pretreatment CT in predicting survival of rectal cancer patients

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-477

  Chi, Yong Kun ^a   Zhang, Xiao Peng ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Sun, Ying Shi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY CANCER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

CT; Lymph node; Rectal cancer; Survival

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RECTUM CANCER; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952985856     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.09.016     Document Type: Article

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