First drainage lymph node(s) in gastric cancer: Analysis of the topographical pattern of lymph node metastasis in patients with pN-1 stage tumors

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1 B, 2003, Pages 601-604

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a   Kurita, Atsushi ^a   Natsuya, Katada ^a   Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Shimao, Hitoshi ^a   Kakita, Akira ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; pN 1 stage; Sentinel nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIGASTRIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TOPOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037233740     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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