Brief Article
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World J Gastroenterol. Nov 21, 2013; 19(43): 7751-7757
Published online Nov 21, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i43.7751
Table 3 Patient pathological parameters
ItemsNumber of cases
Pathological diagnoses
Well differentiated10
Poorly differentiated7
Myxoadenocarcinoma4
Specimen macro-assessment of TME21 (radical resection)
Circumferential resection margin21 (Negative)
Postoperative pathology staging (TNM)
T1-4N0M07
T1-2N1M05
T3-4N1M06
T3-4N2M03
Lymph nodes harvest (mean)17.8 ± 4.6
Metastatic lymph nodes (mean)3.4 ± 1.8