Evaluation of the new International Union Against Cancer TNM staging for gastric carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1796-1800

  Katai, Hitoshi ^a   Yoshimura, Kimio ^b   Maruyama, Keiichi ^a   Sasako, Mitsuru ^a   Sano, Takeshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Lymph node dissection; Lymphatic metastasis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME;

HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034655292     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000415)88:8<1796::AID-CNCR6>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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