Benefit of lateral lymph node dissection for rectal cancer: Long-term analysis of 944 cases undergoing surgery at a single center (1975-2004)

Anticancer Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4633-4640

  Kinugasa, Tetsushi ^a   Akagi, Yoshito ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benefit; Lateral lymph node dissection; Pelvic sidewall dissection; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECTUM CANCER; ARTICLE; BENEFIT; LATERAL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PELVIC SIDEWALL DISSECTION; RECTUM TUMOR;

BENEFIT; LATERAL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PELVIC SIDEWALL DISSECTION; RECTAL CANCER;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84908676246     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: 17917530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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