Can the Tumor Deposits Be Counted as Metastatic Lymph Nodes in the UICC TNM Staging System for Colorectal Cancer?

OBJECTIVE: The 7th edition of AJCC staging manual implicitly states that only T1 and T2 lesions that lack regional lymph node metastasis but have tumor deposit(s) will be classified in addition as N1c, though it is not consistent in that pN1c is also an option for pT3/T4a tumors in the staging table...

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Autores principales: Song, Yong-Xi, Gao, Peng, Wang, Zhen-Ning, Liang, Ji-Wang, Sun, Zhe, Wang, Mei-Xian, Dong, Yu-Lan, Wang, Xin-Fang, Xu, Hui-Mian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034087

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034087

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