Napoleon Bonaparte's gastric cancer: A clinicopathologic approach to staging, pathogenesis, and etiology

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-57

  Lugli, Alessandro ^a   Zlobec, Inti ^b   Singer, Gad ^a   Lugli, Andrea Kopp ^c   Terracciano, Luigi M ^a   Genta, Robert M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Helicobacter pylori infection; Hereditary gastric cancer syndrome; Napoleon Bonaparte; TNM stage

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILIAL CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

FAMOUS PERSONS; FRANCE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846049943     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0684     Document Type: Article

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