Colonic carcinoma: a quantitative assessment of lymphocyte infiltration at the periphery of colonic tumors related to prognosis.
Quantitative analysis of the lymphocyte infiltration at the periphery of colorectal carcinomata has revealed a statistically significant difference, p less than 0.001, in the distribution associated with Dukes B compared with Dukes C tumors of moderate differentiation.
D002452:Cell Count; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic