Relevant prognostic factors in gastric cancer: Ten-year results of the German Gastric Cancer Study

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 449-461

  Siewert, Jörg Rüdiger ^a   Böttcher, Knut ^a   Stein, Hubert J ^a   Roder, Jürgen D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0343415168     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199810000-00002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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