Clinicopathological features of early gastric cancer in younger versus older patients in a high incidence area of Northern Italy

Italian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 138-142

  Caruso, R A ^a   Finocchiaro, G ^a   Bersiga, A ^a   Fedele, F ^a   Betri, E ^a   Rigoli, L ^a   Inferrera, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adenomatous residue; Age; Early gastric cancer; Histopathology; Lymph node involvement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031392914     PISSN: 11258055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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