Optimizing nodal and staging classification in low rectal cancers with lateral node metastasis: multicentre retrospective cohort study.
Eiji ShintoHideyuki IkeMasaaki ItoKeiichi TakahashiMasayuki OhueYukihide KanemitsuTakeshi SutoTetsushi KinugasaJun WatanabeJin-Ichi HidaMichio ItabashiHeita OzawaHiroaki NozawaHirotoshi KobayashiYojiro HashiguchiKazuo HaseKenichi SugiharaPublished in: BJS open (2022)
A modified nodal system is proposed to account for the significance of lateral node metastasis.