Prognostic significance of the ratio between metastatic and dissected lymph nodes (n ratio) in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-135

  Saito, Hiroaki ^a   Fukumoto, Yoji ^a   Osaki, Tomohiro ^a   Yamada, Yoshinori ^a   Fukuda, Kenji ^a   Tatebe, Shigeru ^a   Tsujitani, Shunichi ^a   Ikeguchi, Masahide ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; n ratio; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38649118508     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20929     Document Type: Article

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