Minimum number of lymph nodes that should be examined for the International Union Against Cancer/American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM classification of gastric carcinoma

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 330-333

  Ichikura, Takashi ^a   Ogawa, Toshiya ^a   Chochi, Kentaro ^a   Kawabata, Toshinobu ^a   Sugasawa, Hidekazu ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST CANCER AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCER TNM CLASSIFICATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; CLASSIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037630253     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6730-9     Document Type: Article

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