Association of the number of metastatic perigastric lymph nodes with long-term survival in gastric cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 61, 2005, Pages 277-280

  Chikara, Kunisaki ^a   Hiroshi, Shimada ^a   Masato, Nomura ^a   Goro, Matsuda ^a   Yuichi, Otsuka ^a   Hidetaka, Ono ^a   Hirotoshi, Akiyama ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Number of metastatic lymph nodes; Perigastric lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIGASTRIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 14144253914     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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