Open AccessPreoperative Tattooing and Improved Lymph Node Retrieval Rates From Colectomy Specimens in Patients With Colorectal Cancers
Author(s) -
Katie Dawson
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
archives of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3644
pISSN - 0004-0010
DOI - 10.1001/archsurg.2010.180
Subject(s) - medicine , colonoscopy , lymph , colorectal cancer , lymph node , colectomy , surgery , retrospective cohort study , pathological , general surgery , cancer , pathology
India ink tattooing at the time of colonoscopy increases the yield of lymph nodes found in pathological analysis of colectomy specimens.
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