Feasibility of sentinel node concept in gastric carcinoma: Clinicopathological analysis of gastric cancer with solitary lymph node metastases

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2 B, 2005, Pages 1349-1352

  Moenig, Stefan P ^a   Luebke, T ^a   Baldus, S E ^a   Schroeder, W ^a   Bollschweiler, E ^a   Schneider, P M ^a   Hoelscher, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node; Metastasis; Sentinel node concept

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CARDIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT GASTRIC ARTERY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIP METASTASIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 17444426343     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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