Prognostic Implications of the Number of Retrieved Lymph Nodes of Patients with Rectal Cancer Treated with Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1845-1851

  Park, In Ja ^a   Yu, Chang Sik ^a   Lim, Seok Byung ^a   Yoon, Yong Sik ^a   Kim, Chan Wook ^a   Kim, Tae Won ^a   Kim, Jong Hoon ^a   Kim, Jin Cheon ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Lymph node; Preoperative chemoradiotherapy; Prognosis; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; SOUTH KOREA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907861101     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: 18734626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-014-2509-1     Document Type: Article

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