Prognostic Significance of the Number of Positive Lymph Nodes in Gallbladder Cancer

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 999-1007

  Endo, Itaru ^a   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Tanabe, Mikiko ^a   Fujii, Yoshiro ^a   Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Morioka, Daisuke ^a   Tanaka, Kuniya ^a   Sekido, Hitoshi ^a   Togo, Shinji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adjuvant therapy; Gallbladder carcinoma; lymph node metastasis; prognostic factor; sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33745864292     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gassur.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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