Can the tumor deposits be counted as metastatic lymph nodes in the UICC TNM staging system for colorectal cancer?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Song, Yong Xi ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Wang, Zhen Ning ^a   Liang, Ji Wang ^a   Sun, Zhe ^a   Wang, Mei Xian ^a   Dong, Yu Lan ^a   Wang, Xin Fang ^a   Xu, Hui Mian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HARRELL C STATISTIC; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR DEPOSIT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858841492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034087     Document Type: Review

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