The prognostic value of lymph node ratio and updated TNM classification in rectal cancer patients with adequate versus inadequate lymph node dissection

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 805-811

  Junginger, T ^a   Goenner, U ^a   Lollert, A ^a   Hollemann, D ^a   Berres, M ^a   Blettner, M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymph node dissection; Lymph node involvement; Lymph node ratio; Prognosis; Rectal cancer; TNM staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SECONDARY; STANDARDS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84906935562     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: 1128045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-014-1136-x     Document Type: Article

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