Limited effectiveness of extended lymph-node dissection for node-negative patients with proximal gastric cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2 B, 2001, Pages 1359-1362

  Kikuchi, S ^a   Katada, N ^a   Sakuramoto, S ^a   Kobayashi, N ^a   Shimao, H ^a   Sakakibara, Y ^a   Sato, K ^a   Kakita, A ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymphadenectomy; Prognosis; Proximal gastric cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035019902     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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