Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1714-1726.e13, May 2010

Meta-analysis Shows That Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells Indicates Poor Prognosis in Patients With Colorectal Cancer

  • Nuh N. Rahbari

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Maximilian Aigner

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Kristian Thorlund

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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  • Nathan Mollberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Edith Motschall

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg, Germany
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  • Katrin Jensen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Markus K. Diener

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Markus W. Büchler

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Moritz Koch

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Jürgen Weitz

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Jürgen Weitz, MD, MSc, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120. fax: (49) 6221 56 5506

Received 25 April 2009; accepted 11 January 2010. published online 25 January 2010.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant number WE 3548/4-1.

PII: S0016-5085(10)00045-4

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2010.01.008

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1714-1726.e13, May 2010

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