The significance of perineural invasion as a prognostic factor in patients with gastric carcinoma

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-100

  Duraker, Nüvit ^a,c   Şişman, Servet ^a   Can, Günay ^b  

^a OKMEYDANI EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Neural invasion; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERINEURAL INVASION; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037289179     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300020     Document Type: Article

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