Distribution of lymph node metastases is an independent predictor of survival for sigmoid colon and rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-78

  Huh, Jung Wook ^a   Kim, Young Jin ^a   Kim, Hyeong Rok ^a  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84155171254     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31823785f6     Document Type: Article

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