Analysis of paraaortic lymph node involvement in pancreatic carcinoma: A significant indication for surgery?

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 583-590

  Kayahara, Masato ^a   Nagakawa, Takukazu ^a   Ohta, Tetsuo ^a   Kitagawa, Hirohisa ^a   Ueno, Keiichi ^a   Tajima, Hidehiro ^a   Elnemr, Ayman ^a   Miwa, Koichi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pancreatic carcinoma; Paraaortic lymph node; Surgical resection; Survival, metastatic rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033083897     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990201)85:3<583::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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