Evaluation of lymph node numbers for adequate staging of Stage II and III colon cancer

BACKGROUND: Although evaluation of at least 12 lymph nodes (LNs) is recommended as the minimum number of nodes required for accurate staging of colon cancer patients, there is disagreement on what constitutes an adequate identification of such LNs. METHODS: To evaluate the minimum number of LNs for...

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Autores principales: Shanmugam, Chandrakumar, Hines, Robert B, Jhala, Nirag C, Katkoori, Venkat R, Zhang, Bin, Posey, James A, Bumpers, Harvey L, Grizzle, William E, Eltoum, Isam E, Siegal, Gene P, Manne, Upender
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21619690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-8722-4-25

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21619690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-8722-4-25

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