Pathological diagnostic criterion of blood and lymphatic vessel invasion in colorectal cancer: A framework for developing an objective pathological diagnostic system using the Delphi method, from the Pathology Working Group of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 551-558

  Kojima, Motohiro ^a   Shimazaki, Hideyuki ^b   Iwaya, Keiichi ^b   Kage, Masayoshi ^c   Akiba, Jun ^d   Ohkura, Yasuo ^e   Horiguchi, Shinichiro ^f   Shomori, Kohei ^g   Kushima, Ryoji ^h   Ajioka, Yoichi ⁱ   Nomura, Shogo ^a   Ochiai, Atsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

ⁱ NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DELPHI STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC VESSEL INVASION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR INVASION;

AGED; BLOOD VESSELS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879416208     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2012-201076     Document Type: Article

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