Evaluation of the usefulness of tumor budding on the prediction of metastasis to the lung and liver after curative excision of colorectal cancer.
Abstract
We evaluated the usefulness of tumor budding, defined as the morphology of infiltration by small clusters of undifferentiated adenocarcinoma into the invasive front of the lesion, for the prediction of metastasis to the lung and liver after curative excision of colorectal cancer.