A practical scoring system based upon ROC analysis for evaluating potential lymph nodes metastasis during gastric surgery

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 534-540

  Wu, Yulian ^a,b   Chen, Jian ^a   Yu, Junxiu ^a   Gao, Shunliang ^a   Shen, Hongwei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node; Metastasis; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPPA STATISTICS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744499686     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20559     Document Type: Article

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