The relationship of lymph node evaluation and colorectal cancer survival after curative resection: A multi-institutional study

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2169-2177

  Kanemitsu, Yukihide ^a   Komori, Koji ^a   Ishiguro, Seiji ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^b   Sugihara, Kenichi ^c  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84865146407     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2223-8     Document Type: Article

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