PMID: 19921565Nov 19, 2009Paper

Impact of meticulousness of pathologists on lymph node harvest after radical resection of invasive rectal carcinoma

Zhonghua wei chang wai ke za zhi = Chinese journal of gastrointestinal surgery
Hao WangRong-gui Meng

Abstract

To analyze the impact of meticulousness of pathologists on the lymph node harvest after radical resection of invasive rectal carcinoma. From January 2008 to May 2009, the clinical data of rectal cancer patients undergone operation were reviewed retrospectively. After multidisciplinary cooperation on rectal cancer, a new rule was applied to request the pathologists to find no less than 15 nodes in single colorectal specimen from January 2009. Patients were divided into two groups (2008 group and 2009 group) and the node harvest numbers were compared. Excluded criteria were recurrent colorectal tumor, Tis tumor, R(1) or R(2) resection, tumor resection transanally or endoscopically, the cases enrolled in other prospective research, synchronous diseases affecting the surgical procedure for the rectal cancer (familial adenomatous polyposis, synchronous colorectal carcinoma) and rectal cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiation. Statistical analysis was performed using One-Sample Kolmogorov- Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney test, Independent-Samples T test and Chi-Square test(SPSS 15.0). A total of 232 patients were identified, including 76 cases in the 2009 group and 156 cases in 2008 group. The lymph node retrieval in the 2009 group was...Continue Reading

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Adenomatous Polyposis Coli

Adenomatous polyposis coli is a protein encoded by the APC gene and acts as a tumor suppressor. Discover the latest research on adenomatous polyposis coli here.

Related Papers

Deutsche zahnärztliche Zeitschrift
M G Wijnbergen-Buijen van WeelderenJ Rotgans
Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
A Haider, M N Amin
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
B P PonsioenJ J van Binsbergen
© 2022 Meta ULC. All rights reserved