Morphometric analysis of regional lymph nodes with and without metastasis from early gastric carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2438-2442

  Nakamura, Kenjiro ^a   Morisaki, Takashi ^a   Noshiro, Hirokazu ^a   Torata, Nobuhiro ^a   Kinukawa, Naoko ^a   Tanaka, Masao ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early gastric carcinoma; Lymph node metastasis; Morphometry; National Institutes of Health (NIH) Image program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034212449     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20000601)88:11<2438::AID-CNCR2>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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