Tumor volume: A novel prognostic factor in patients who undergo curative resection for gastric cancer

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 385, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-228

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a,b   Hiki, Yoshiki ^a   Shimao, Hitoshi ^a   Kakita, Yuzuru Sakakibara Akira ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Gastric cancer; Prognostic factor; Surface rendering; Tumor volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

EID: 0034075438     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004230050269     Document Type: Article

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