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Integrated Ratio of Metastatic to Examined Lymph Nodes and Number of Metastatic Lymph Nodes into the AJCC Staging System for Colon Cancer

OBJECTIVE: At present, only the number of metastatic lymph nodes (LNs+) is used for the pN category of AJCC TNM system for colon cancer. Recently, the ratio of metastatic to examined lymph nodes (LNR) has been reported to represent powerful independent predictive capacity in colon cancer. We sought...

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Autores principales: Gao, Peng, Song, Yong-xi, Wang, Zhen-ning, Xu, Ying-ying, Tong, Lin-lin, Zhu, Jin-liang, Tang, Qing-chao, Xu, Hui-mian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035021