Lymph node evaluation for colon cancer in an era of quality guidelines: Who improves?

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Parsons, Helen M ^a   Begun, James W ^b   Kuntz, Karen M ^b   Tuttle, Todd M ^b   McGovern, Patricia M ^b   Virnig, Beth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 84887075217     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2012.000812     Document Type: Article

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