Evaluation of a new staging system by the japanese research society for gastric cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1015-1021

  Ochiai, Takenori ^a   Hayashi, Hideki ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^a   Nakajima, Kazuaki ^a   Shimada, Hideaki ^a   Hishikawa, Etsuo ^a   Yasumoto, Akihiko ^a   Takeda, Akihiko ^a   Isono, Kaichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Japanese classification of stage grouping; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0031787439     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02483954     Document Type: Article

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