Impact of skip metastasis in gastric cancer

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 645-649

  Park, Sung Soo ^a   Ryu, Je Seock ^a   Min, Byung Wook ^a   Kim, Wan Bae ^a   Kim, Seung Joo ^a   Kim, Chong Suk ^a   Mok, Young Jae ^a,b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node; Skip metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELIAC ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN ARTERY; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27844439091     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03485.x     Document Type: Article

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