Assessment of lymph node metastasis in elderly patients with colorectal cancer by sentinel lymph node identification using carbon nanoparticles.

CONCLUSION: Preoperative SLN examination can evaluate the abdominal lymph node status in elderly patients with colorectal cancer, which is simple and accurate and can guide the clinical treatment, so it is worthy of popularization and application. PMID: 29552762 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of B.U.ON. - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: J BUON Source Type: research