It is important not to overinterpret the good survival outcomes reported by Kawahara et al. [1] for three-vs. two-field lymphadenectomy in esophageal cancer. They performed a retrospective review and found that patients who had less than four positive nodes had prolonged survival following three-fie
Abdominopelvic lymph-node dissection in cancer of the rectum and distal colon
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1951
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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