Prognostic implications of MRI-detected lateral nodal disease and extramural vascular invasion in rectal cancer.
D P SchaapA OguraJ NederendM MaasJ S CnossenG J CreemersI van LijnschotenG A P NieuwenhuijzenH J T RuttenM KustersPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2018)
Although lateral nodal disease is more a local problem, mrEMVI mainly predicts distant recurrence. The results of this study showed an unacceptably high local recurrence rate in patients with a short axis of 10 mm or more, despite neoadjuvant (chemo)radiotherapy.