Lymph node involvement in gastric cancer for different tumor sites and T stage: Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer (IRGGC) experience

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1146-1153

  Di Leo, Alberto ^a,d   Marrelli, Daniele ^b   Roviello, Franco ^b   Bernini, Marco ^a   Minicozzi, Annamaria ^a   Giacopuzzi, Simone ^a   Pedrazzani, Corrado ^b   Baiocchi, Luca Gian ^c   De Manzoni, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph nodes metastasis; Lymphadenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548142236     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-006-0062-2     Document Type: Article

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