Clinicopathologic factors associated with lymph node retrieval in resectable colon cancer: A veterans' affairs central cancer registry (VACCR) database analysis

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 667-671

  Gonsalves, Wilson I ^a   Kanuri, Swapna ^a   Tashi, Tsewang ^a   Aldoss, Ibrahim ^b   Sama, Ashwin ^c   Al Howaidi, Islam ^a   Ganta, Ashwin ^a   Kalaiah, Mudappa ^a   Thota, Ramya ^a   Krishnamurthy, Jairam ^a   Fang, Xiang ^d   Townley, Peter ^a   Ganti, Apar K ^e,f   Subbiah, Shanmuga ^a,f   Silberstein, Peter T ^a,f  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f VA NEBRASKA WESTERN IOWA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

clinicopathologic features; colon cancer; lymph node yield; VACCR

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VETERAN;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 80053591528     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21886     Document Type: Article

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