Clinical significance of lymph node ratio and location of nodal involvement in patients with right colon cancer

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 190-197

  Kobayashi, Hirotoshi ^a   Enomoto, Masayuki ^a   Higuchi, Tetsuro ^a   Uetake, Hiroyuki ^a   Iida, Satoru ^a   Ishikawa, Toshiaki ^a   Ishiguro, Megumi ^a   Kato, Shunsuke ^a   Sugihara, Kenichi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Complete mesocolic excision; Lymph node metastasis; Lymph node ratio

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; COLON; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79955679715     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323966     Document Type: Review

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