The clinical significance of lymph node size in colon cancer

Modern Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1413-1422

  Märkl, Bruno ^a   Röle, Janine ^a   Arnholdt, Hans M ^a   Schaller, Tina ^a   Krammer, Ines ^a   Cacchi, Claudio ^a   Jähnig, Hendrik ^a   Schenkirsch, Gerhard ^b   Spatz, Hanno ^a   Anthuber, Matthias ^a  

^a KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b Clinical and Population Based Cancer Registry   (Germany)

Author keywords

colon cancer; fat clearance; lymph node; methylene blue; morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84866987025     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2012.92     Document Type: Article

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