Is tumor size a prognostic indicator for gastric carcinoma?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6 B, 2002, Pages 3673-3677

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

^a SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036875139     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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