Open AccessEmergency surgery for colorectal cancer does not result in nodal understaging compared with elective surgery
Author(s) -
Sunil B. Patel,
Sanjay Patel,
Muriel Brackstone
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.019313
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , colorectal cancer , confidence interval , elective surgery , cohort , surgery , lymph node , stage (stratigraphy) , emergency surgery , cancer , paleontology , biology
It has been suggested that inadequate lymph node harvest may result in pathologically understaged or indeterminate staging of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We compared the adequacy of nodal staging in patients undergoing emergency surgery compared with elective surgery for CRC.
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