Meanings of pathologic staging in English

MRI and surgical- pathologic staging was performed using the 1997 TNM staging system.

Eighteen patients had clinical restaging only, and did not have pathologic staging.

Patients currently are staged clinically, but no pathologic staging system is in use.

Surgical- pathologic staging and SPSs show greater homogeneity and discriminatory utility than FIGO staging.

MRI staging was compared with surgical- pathologic staging as the gold standard.

The endoscopic staging was compared with the pathologic staging of the resected specimen.

Potential disadvantages include increased toxicity and cost, potential delay in effective treatment, and obscuring of pathologic staging.

Results: Final pathologic staging revealed 44 noninvasive tumors and 16 invasive tumors.

Surgical and pathologic staging can identify a subset of surgically treated rectal cancer patients at high risk for tumor relapse and death.

Conclusions: Surgical- pathologic staging and SPSs improve characterization of tumor severity and disease invasion, which may more accurately predict outcome and guide postoperative therapy.

Two reviewers blinded to the results of clinical and pathologic staging retrospectively evaluated computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and coregistered computed tomography-positron emission tomography images.

We therefore consider the new TNM classification for PM reclassified in 1997 to be less acceptable for surgical- pathologic staging than the revision in 1992.

We constructed a surgical- pathologic staging and SPSs, which was subsequently validated in a prospective study of 1,104 cervical cancer patients (Cohort 2).

Pathologic staging and operative curability are the independent predictive factors of survival for younger patients.

Objective: Pathologic staging parameters and the clinically important stage-independent pathologic factors that pathologists find most problematic to evaluate in colorectal cancer resection specimens are reviewed.