Impact of Schwartz enhanced visualization solution on staging colorectal cancer and clinicopathological features associated with lymph node count.

Background: Stage-specific survival for colon cancer improves when more lymph nodes are reported in the surgical specimen. This has led to a minimum standard of identifying 12 lymph nodes as a quality indicator.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether the addition of Schwartz solution increases node yield and impacts pathologic staging.