Intra-arterial methylene blue injection into ex vivo colorectal cancer specimens improves lymph node staging accuracy: A randomized controlled trial

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 681-689

  Borowski, D W ^a   Banky, B ^a,b   Banerjee, A K ^a,c   Agarwal, A K ^a   Tabaqchali, M A ^a   Garg, D K ^a   Hobday, C ^d   Hegab, M ^a   Gill, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH TEES   (United Kingdom)

^b St Borbala Hospital   (Hungary)

^c RAIGMORE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Lymph node harvest; Methylene blue; Randomized controlled trial; Staging

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; METHYLENE BLUE; COLORING AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ABDOMEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; INJECTION; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84905820851     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/codi.12681     Document Type: Article

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