Prognostic significance of metastatic lymph node size in patients with gastric cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1522-1530

  Dhar, D K ^a   Kubota, H ^a   Kinukawa, N ^b   Maruyama, R ^a   Kyriazanos, I D ^a   Ohno, S ^a   Nagasue, N ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNION INTERNATIONAL CONTRA LA CANCRUM TNM STAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0348041949     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4354     Document Type: Article

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