Sentinel node mapping for gastric cancer: Is the jury still out?

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 135-137

  Kitagawa, Yuko ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; EDITORIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE MAPPING; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4744359615     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-004-0290-7     Document Type: Editorial

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