Relation of number of positive lymph nodes to the prognosis of patients with primary gastric adenocarcinoma

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Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 525-527

  Wu, C W ^a,b   Hsieh, M C ^a   Lo, S S ^a   Tsay, S H ^a   Lui, W Y ^a   P'eng, F K ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Positive nodes; Prognostic survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0029876590     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.38.4.525     Document Type: Article

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