The size of regional lymph nodes does not correlate with the presence or absence of metastasis in lymph nodes in rectal cancer.

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Published in J Surg Oncol on December 01, 1993

Authors

H Kotanagi1, T Fukuoka, Y Shibata, T Yoshioka, O Aizawa, Y Saito, G E Tur, K Koyama

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1: Department of Surgery, Akita University, School of Medicine, Japan.

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