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a Of 62 patients who underwent R0 resection, no patients had positive findings at staging laparoscopy but 11 patients had peritoneal fluid positive for CEA by RT-PCR. b 18% of patients who underwent R0 resection had evidence of micrometastatic disease to the peritoneum detected by RT-PCR for CEA mRNA
