Lymph node revealing solutions in colorectal cancer: should they be used routinely?
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Lymph node revealing solutions in colorectal cancer: should they be used routinely?
The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and College of American Pathologists recommend that at least 12 lymph nodes should be harvested for adequate staging of colorectal carcinoma. Just one nodal tumour deposit upstages the malignancy from pN0 to pN1. This is critically important as node-positive patients (pN1) are considered for adjuvant chemotherapy whereas node-negative patients (pN0) ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0021-9746,1472-4146
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2013-202146