Elevated fibrinogen plasma level is not an independent predictor of poor prognosis in a large cohort of Western patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer
Corrado Pedrazzani, Guido Mantovani, Gian Luca Salvagno, Elisabeth Baldiotti, Andrea Ruzzenente, Calogero Iacono, Giuseppe Lippi, Alfredo Guglielmi
Corrado Pedrazzani, Guido Mantovani, Elisabeth Baldiotti, Andrea Ruzzenente, Calogero Iacono, Alfredo Guglielmi, Division of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Dentistry, Gynecology and Pediatrics, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
Gian Luca Salvagno, Giuseppe Lippi, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
Author contributions: Pedrazzani C, Mantovani G and Guglielmi A provided study concept and design; Mantovani G, Salvagno GL and Baldiotti E collected data; Pedrazzani C, Mantovani G and Ruzzenente A performed data analysis and interpretation; Pedrazzani C, Mantovani G drafted the manuscript; Iacono C, Lippi G and Guglielmi A provided critical revision of the paper.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of University of Verona, Verona, Italy, with ID number: 42763 (CRINF-1034 CESC).
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided written consent for data collection and processing, for this study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: We declare that there are no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: Original data, images, tables are available from the corrisponding author: Dott. Corrado Pedrazzani, Chirurgia Generale e Epatobiliare, Policlinico “G.B. Rossi”, Piazzale Scuro 10, 37134 Verona, Italy. corrado.pedrazzani@univr.it. Partecipants gave informed consent for data sharing.
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Correspondence to: Corrado Pedrazzani, MD, Division of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Dentistry, Gynecology and Pediatrics, University of Verona, Piazzale Scuro 10, 37134 Verona, Italy.
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Received: July 8, 2016
Peer-review started: July 12, 2016
First decision: July 29, 2016
Revised: October 2, 2016
Accepted: November 12, 2016
Article in press: November 13, 2016
Published online: December 7, 2016
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