Lymph Node Count After Preoperative Radiotherapy Is an Independently Prognostic Factor For Pathologically Lymph Node-Negative Patients With Rectal Cancer

Recent studies indicated that preoperative radiotherapy significantly reduces the lymph nodes (LNs) harvest from patients with rectal cancer. This may weaken the prognostic value of current standard of LNs retrieval (≥12 LNs). This study investigates the prognostic impact of the LN counts on patholo...

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Autores principales: Li, Qingguo, Zhuo, Changhua, Liang, Lei, Zheng, Hongtu, Li, Dawei, Cai, Sanjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25621683
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000000395

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25621683
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000000395

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