Prognostic significance of metastatic lymph node ratio in T3 gastric cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-329

  Hyung, Woo Jin ^a   Noh, Sung Hoon ^a   Yoo, Chang Hak ^b   Huh, Ji Hun ^c   Shin, Dong Woo ^a   Lah, Ki Hyeok ^a   Lee, Jun Ho ^a   Choi, Seung Ho ^a   Min, Jin Sik ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036511216     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-001-0227-9     Document Type: Article

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