Factors associated with pN3 stage tumors according to the TNM classification in advanced gastric cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 53, 2003, Pages 1723-1726

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a,b   Katada, N ^a   Sakuramoto, S ^a   Koabayashi, N ^a   Shimao, H ^a   Sakakibara, Y ^a   Kakita, A ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141650645     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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