Probability of lymph node metastasis in small gastric cancer tumor: Is it an indication for limited surgery?

International Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 206-209

  Yokota, Takashi ^a   Saito, Toshihiro ^a   Teshima, Shin ^a   Yamada, Yasuo ^a   Iwamoto, Kazutsugu ^a   Takahashi, Michinori ^a   Kunii, Yasuo ^a   Murata, Katsuyuki ^b   Ishiyama, Shuichi ^a   Yamauchi, Hidemi ^a  

^a SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Limited surgery; Lymph node metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035495957     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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