Therapeutic strategy for patients with pN0 gastric carcinoma

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 212-219

  Kunisaki, Chikara ^a,b   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Nomura, Masato ^a   Matsuda, Goro ^a   Otsuka, Yuichi ^a   Ono, Hidetaka ^a   Akiyama, Hirotoshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Lymph node metastatis; pN0; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33747889829     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20601     Document Type: Article

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