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Quality Control in Colorectal Cancer Care: How Many Lymph Nodes Should Be Harvested?

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  1. Department of Surgery, Metaxa Cancer Hospital, 51 Botassi Street, 18537, Piraeus, Greece

    John Spiliotis

  2. Department of Surgery, Ioannina University School of Medicine, 45110, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios H. Roukos

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Spiliotis, J., Roukos , D.H. Quality Control in Colorectal Cancer Care: How Many Lymph Nodes Should Be Harvested?. World J Surg 34, 864–865 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-009-0236-7

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