Prognostic significance of lymph node ratio in patients undergoing abdominoperineal resection of rectum

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1053-1057

  Tayyab, M ^a   Sharma, A ^a,c   MacDonald, A W ^b   Gunn, J ^a   Hartley, J E ^a   Monson, J R T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

APR; Lymph node ratio; Prognosis; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; DATA BASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868198314     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-012-0986-9     Document Type: Article

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