Risk factors associated with poor lymph node harvest after colon cancer surgery in a national cohort

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Nedrebo B S ^a,b   Soreide K ^a,b   Nesbakken, A ^c,d   Eriksen, M T ^e   Soreide J A ^a,b   Korner H ^a,b  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Lymph nodes; National registry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; LYMPH NODE HARVEST; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM EXAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOID; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORWAY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84879187524     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12245     Document Type: Article

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