Which patients with advanced, proximal gastric cancer benefit from complete clearance of spleno-pancreatic lymph nodes?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6 B, 2002, Pages 3513-3517

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a   Nemoto, Yuhta ^a   Natsuya, Katada ^a   Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Shimao, Hitoshi ^a   Sakakibara, Yuzuru ^a   Kakita, Akira ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node dissection; Prognosis; Proximal gastric cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREAS; PROGNOSIS; SPLEEN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036875079     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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