Lymph node status assessment for gastric carcinoma: Is the number of metastatic lymph nodes really practical as a parameter for N categories in the TNM classification?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-20

  Kodera, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamamura, Yoshitaka ^a   Shimizu, Yasuhiro ^a   Torii, Akihito ^a   Hirai, Takashi ^a   Yasui, Kenzo ^a   Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Kato, Tomoyuki ^a   Kito, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Stage classification; Survival curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031664359     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199809)69:1<15::AID-JSO4>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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