You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
PostScript
letter to the editor
TNM and mesorectal excisions
  1. Norman J Carr
  1. Correspondence to Dr Norman J Carr, University of Southampton, Department of Cellular Pathology, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; n.j.carr{at}soton.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.2010.079517

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    The article by Swamy1 highlights the importance of the non-peritonealised resection margin (NRM) in mesorectal excision specimens for carcinoma. If the NRM is involved by tumour, local recurrence is more likely, and the prognosis is poor.

    The article states that tumour extending to the NRM is classified as pT4, which …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

    Linked Articles