Prognostic value of intratumoral natural killer cells in gastric carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 577-583

  Ishigami, Sumiya ^a   Natsugoe, Shoji ^a   Tokuda, Koki ^a   Nakajo, Akihiro ^a   Che, Xiangming ^a   Iwashige, Hirohumi ^a   Aridome, Kuniaki ^a   Hokita, Shuichi ^a   Aikou, Takashi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Lymphocyte; Natural killer cell; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD57; CARCINOMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034141680     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000201)88:3<577::AID-CNCR13>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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