What counts most in the lymph node count for colorectal cancer?

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-215

  Fingerhut, Abe ^a  

^a Hippokrateon University Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

colorectal cancer; extended lymphadenectomy; laparoscopy; laparotomy; lymph node count

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE COUNT; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOLOGIST; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; WELLBEING;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 84868253037     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350612458547     Document Type: Review

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