Lymphadenectomy in gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
Extended lymph node dissection is an important part of the surgical treatment for cancer of the esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum. With an appropriate lymphadenectomy a more precise tumour-staging, an increase in resectability, a rise of the rate of R0-resections, further a decrease in local tumour recurrences and an improvement of prognosis can be achieved.
Horváth
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1st Surgical Clinic, University Medical School of Pécs, Hungary.
D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate