Patients' profile, clinical presentations and histopathological features of colo-rectal cancer in Al Hassa region, Saudi Arabia

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 211-216

  Amin, Tarek Tawfik ^a   Suleman, Waseem ^b   Al Taissan, Abdul Aziz ^b   Al Joher, Abdul Latif ^b   Al Mulhim, Othman ^c   Al Yousef, Abdul Hameed ^c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Colo rectal cancer; Histopathology; Presentations; Retrospective study; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; COLLOID CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864880257     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.1.211     Document Type: Article

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