Which is the most suitable classification for colorectal cancer, log odds, the number or the ratio of positive lymph nodes?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Song, Yong Xi ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Wang, Zhen Ning ^a   Tong, Lin Lin ^a   Xu, Ying Ying ^a   Sun, Zhe ^a   Xing, Cheng Zhong ^a   Xu, Hui Mian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINESE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOG ODDS OF POSITIVE LYMPH NODE CLASSIFICATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUMBER OF POSTIVE LYMPH NODE CLASSIFICATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSITIVE LYMPH NODE RATIO CLASSIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RISK; SURVIVAL;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 83255175580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028937     Document Type: Article

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