Prognostic value of lymph node staging in gastric cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 49, 2003, Pages 301-304

  Ichikawa, Daisuke ^a,b   Kurioka, Hideaki ^a   Ueshima, Yasuo ^a   Shirono, Koichi ^a   Kan, Keitaro ^a   Shioaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Lee, Chol Joo ^a   Hamashima, Takashi ^a   Deguchi, Eiichi ^a   Ikeda, Eito ^a   Mutoh, Fumitaka ^a   Yamagishi, Hisakazu ^b  

^a KYOTO FIRST RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Japanese Classification; Lymph node metastasis; Surgery; TNM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 12244291007     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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