AUTHOR=Xu Zhao , Bao Mandula , Cai Qiang , Wang Qian , Xing Wei , Liu Qian 

TITLE=Optimization of treatment strategies based on preoperative imaging features and local recurrence areas for locally advanced lower rectal cancer after lateral pelvic lymph node dissection

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Oncology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2023

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/oncology/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1272808

DOI=10.3389/fonc.2023.1272808

ISSN=2234-943X

ABSTRACT=Total mesorectal excision (TME); Local recurrence (LR); Locally advanced lower rectal cancer (LALRC); Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT); Lateral pelvic lymph node (LPN); Lateral pelvic lymph node dissection (LPND); Japanese clinical oncology group (JCOG); Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR); computed tomography (CT); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); clinical circumferential resection margin (cCRM); American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC); neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC); central pelvis area (CPA); pelvic plexus and internal iliac area (PIA); obturator area (OA); statistical package for social science (SPSS);