Argyrophilic nucleolar organizer region in endoscopically obtained biopsy tissue: A useful predictor of nodal metastasis and prognosis in carcinoma of the stomach

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 482-487

  Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a   Orita, Hiroyuki ^a   Emi, Yasunori ^a   Ichiyoshi, Yuji ^a   Korenaga, Daisuke ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME NOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILVER STAINING; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030011059     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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