What is the Dukes' system for carcinoma of the rectum?
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 25 (5) , 474-477
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02553661
Abstract
Analysis is made of the evolution of the currently used Dukes'' system for postsurgical staging of carcinoma of the rectum. No further modification is likely to improve understanding of a patient''s disease or prognosis.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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