Prognostic benefit of extended radical lymphadenectomy for patients with gastric cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2 B, 2000, Pages 1285-1289

  Ikeguchi, Masahide ^a   Oka, Shin Ichi ^a   Gomyo, Yoshihito ^a   Tsujitani, Shun Ichi ^a   Maeta, Michio ^a   Kaibara, Nobuaki ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Curative operation; D1 lymphadenectomy; D2 lymphadenectomy; D3 lymphadenectomy; Gastric cancer; Operative morbidity; Operative mortality; Prognosis; Retrospective study; Stage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034052421     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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