Number of Lymph Nodes in Primary Nodal Basin and a "second Look" Protocol as Quality Indicators for Optimal Nodal Staging of Colon Cancer

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 125-130

  Lisovsky, Mikhail ^a   Schutz, Shannon N ^a   Drage, Michael G ^b   Liu, Xiaoying ^a   Suriawinata, Arief A ^a   Srivastava, Amitabh ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CANCER STAGING; COLON; COLON TUMOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85008402638     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2015-0401-OA     Document Type: Article

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