One-millimeter cancer-free margin is curative for colorectal liver metastases: A propensity score case-match approach

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 543-548

  Hamady, Zaed Z R ^a   Lodge, J Peter A ^a   Welsh, Fenella K ^a   Toogood, Giles J ^a   White, Alan ^a   John, Timothy ^a   Rees, Myrddin ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colorectal cancer; hepatic resection; liver metastases; margin; resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894030553     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182902b6e     Document Type: Article

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