Can surgical diagnosis of "early" gastric cancer and lymph node metastasis be accurate?

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-40

  Yoshikawa, Takaki ^a   Ishiwa, Naoki ^a   Morinaga, Soichiro ^a   Noguchi, Yoshikazu ^a   Yamamoto, Yuji ^a  

^a Yokohama Kowan Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early gastric carcinoma; Lymph node dissection; Surgical diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1842683637     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-003-0266-z     Document Type: Article

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