Lateral lymph node metastasis in a patient with T1 upper rectal cancer treated by lateral lymph node dissection: a case report and brief literature review

BACKGROUND: Lateral lymph node (LLN) metastasis may occur in patients with advanced rectal cancers of which the lower margins are located at or below the peritoneal reflection. However, LLN metastasis from a T1 rectal cancer is rare. Here, we report a case of LLN metastasis from a T1 upper rectal ca...

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Autores principales: Tanishima, Hiroyuki, Kimura, Masamichi, Tominaga, Toshiji, Iwakura, Shinji, Hoshida, Yoshihiko, Horiuchi, Tetsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28836143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-017-0366-3

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