Postoperative Staging of Gastric Carcinoma: A Comparison between the UICC Stage Classification and the 12th Edition of the Japanese General Rules for Gastric Cancer Study

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 476-480

  Kodera, Y ^a   Yamamura, Y ^a   Torii, A ^a   Uesaka, K ^a   Hirai, T ^a   Yasui, K ^a   Morimoto, T ^a   Kato, T ^a   Kito, T ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Residual tumour status; Staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029932832     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365529609006768     Document Type: Article

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