Classification of regional lymph node metastasis from gastric carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 621-631

  Roder, Jürgen D ^a,d   Böttcher, Knut ^a   Busch, Raymonde ^a   Wittekind, Christian ^b   Hermanek, Paul ^c   Siewert, J Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; International Union Against Cancer American Joint Committee on Cancer (UICC AJCC) classification; Lymph node metastasis; Pathology; Prognostic factors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

CARCINOMA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2642589004     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980215)82:4<621::AID-CNCR2>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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