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Pathological nodal staging score for rectal cancer patients treated with radical surgery with or without neoadjuvant therapy: a postoperative decision tool

BACKGROUND: Lymph node status can predict the prognosis of patients with rectal cancer treated with surgery. Thus, we sought to establish a standard for the minimum number of lymph nodes (LNs) examined in patients with rectal cancer by evaluating the probability that pathologically negative LNs prov...

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Autores principales: Dai, Weixing, Li, Yaqi, Wu, Zhenyu, Feng, Yang, Cai, Sanjun, Xu, Ye, Li, Qingguo, Cai, Guoxiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30662284
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S169309