The integration of macroscopic tumor invasion of adjacent organs into TNM staging system for colorectal cancer.

OBJECTIVE: In addition to pathological TNM (pTNM) staging, the macroscopic staging (surgical TNM, sTNM) is another method used to stage and assess tumors, and it also potentially influences patient treatment guidelines. However, for the same patient, surgeons and pathologists might assess tumor dept...

وصف كامل

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
الحاوية / القاعدة:PLoS ONE
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ji-Wang Liang, Peng Gao, Zhen-Ning Wang, Yong-Xi Song, Ying-Ying Xu, Mei-Xian Wang, Yu-Lan Dong, Hui-Mian Xu
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3530549?pdf=render