title: Letter to the editor: a meta-analysis of preoperative circulating and disseminated tumor cells are negative predictors of survival in patients undergoing hepatic resection of colorectal liver metastases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China.
authors.forename: Longyi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China.
authors.forename: Yongxi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China. josieon826@sina.cn.
authors.forename: Zhenning
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*; D016019:Survival Analysis