Is there a rationale to record lymphatic invasion in node-positive colorectal cancer?

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 847-850

  Betge, Johannes ^a   Schneider, Nora I ^a   Pollheimer, Marion J ^a   Lindtner, Richard A ^a   Kornprat, Peter ^a   Schlemmer, Andrea ^a   Rehak, Peter ^a   Langner, Cord ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866089416     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2012-200817     Document Type: Article

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