Preoperative lateral lymph node features and impact on local recurrence after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and total mesorectal excision for locally advanced rectal cancer: results from a multicentre international cohort study.
Pietro AchilliDavide FerrariGiacomo CaliniCamillo Leonardo BertoglioCarmelo MagistroMatteo OrigiPietro CarnevaliBruno Domenico AlampiIrene GiustiGiovanni FerrariEleonora CalafioreAntonino SpinelliFabian GrassPhilip DeslarzesDieter HahnloserSolafah AbdallahDavid W LarsonPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2024)
Abnormal LLNs on baseline and restaging MRI assessment did not impact LR and LLR rates in this cohort of patients with LARC submitted to nCRT and curative TME surgery.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- locally advanced
- lymph node
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- minimally invasive
- magnetic resonance imaging
- clinical trial
- patients undergoing
- coronary artery bypass
- radiation therapy
- contrast enhanced
- study protocol
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance
- double blind
- diffusion weighted imaging
- acute coronary syndrome
- percutaneous coronary intervention