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Impact of using elastic stains for detection of venous invasion in the prognosis of patients with lymph node negative colorectal cancer
Journal
International journal of colorectal disease
Volume
25
Number
6
Pages / Article-Number
741-6
Keywords
Colorectal carcinoma, Colorectal cancer, Venous invasion, Vascular invasion, Stage I, Stage II
Abstract
Patients with nodal negative colorectal cancer (CRC) suffer recurrent or metastatic disease in 40% of cases after surgical resection. To investigate a potential prognostic impact of vascular tumor infiltration, we retrospectively analyzed 185 nodal negative stage I and II CRC specimens for the presence of intra- and/or extramural venous invasion (V1IM/V1EM) using elastic stains of all tumor sections and correlated our findings with the clinical follow-up.
