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 Achilli Davide Ferrari Giacomo Calini Camillo Leonardo Bertoglio Carmelo Magistro Matteo Origi Pietro Carnevali Bruno Domenico Alampi Irene Giusti Giovanni Ferrari Eleonora Calafiore Antonino Spinelli Fabian Grass Philip Deslarzes Dieter Hahnloser Solafah Abdallah David W Larson

Published 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
contrast enhanced
coronary artery bypass
randomized controlled trial
study protocol
squamous cell carcinoma
computed tomography
early stage