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Invitation to Reply to: Searching for a Cutoff Value of Lymph Nodes Retrieved as a Quality Control of Surgery and Pathology in Colon Cancer (Papaziogas B, Ziogas D. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2009)

“Cutoff” Values for Lymph Nodes in Colon Cancer: Making a Clinical Distinction

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    R. Vather MBChB, T. Sammour MBChB, A. Kahokehr MBChB, A. B. Connolly FRACS & A. G. Hill MD, FRACS

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Vather, R., Sammour, T., Kahokehr, A. et al. Invitation to Reply to: Searching for a Cutoff Value of Lymph Nodes Retrieved as a Quality Control of Surgery and Pathology in Colon Cancer (Papaziogas B, Ziogas D. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2009). Ann Surg Oncol 17, 327–328 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-009-0751-7

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