Metachronous metastasis- and survival-analysis show prognostic importance of lymphadenectomy for colon carcinomas

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Laubert, Tilman ^a   Habermann, Jens K ^a   Hemmelmann, Claudia ^a   Kleemann, Markus ^a   Oevermann, Elisabeth ^a   Bouchard, Ralf ^a   Hildebrand, Philipp ^a   Jungbluth, Thomas ^a   Bürk, Conny ^a   Esnaashari, Hamed ^a   Schlöricke, Erik ^a   Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^a   Bruch, Hans Peter ^a   Roblick, Uwe J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Lymph nodes; Metastasis; Prognosis; Recurrence free survival; Regression analysis; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACHRONOUS METASTASIS; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SECOND CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYNCHRONOUS METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; COLON TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84858726838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-12-24     Document Type: Article

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