The size of regional lymph nodes does no
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Dr. Hitoshi Kotanagi; Takemi Fukuoka; Yutaka Shibata; Toshiaki Yoshioka; Osamu A
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Article
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1993
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We evaluated the relationship between the size of regional lymph nodes and the presence of metastasis in them in rectal cancer. Of 1,064 lymph nodes in 46 specimens, 133 (13%) were found to have metastases. A half of the positive nodes and most of the negative ones were less than 5 mm in diameter. T