Lymph node harvesting in colorectal carcinoma specimens

Tumori

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-78

  Lagoudianakis, Emmanuel ^b   Pappas, Apostolos ^a   Koronakis, Nikolaos ^b   Tsekouras, Dimitrios ^a   Dallianoudis, John ^b   Kontogianni, Panagiota ^a   Papanikolaou, Dimitrios ^a   Chrysikos, John ^b   Karavitis, George ^b   Markogiannakis, Haridimos ^a   Filis, Konstantinos ^a   Manouras, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Department of Pathology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Lymph nodes; Tumor location

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 79953895031     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: 20382529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089161109700114     Document Type: Article

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