A new diagnostic method for early gastric cancer: Volume measurement by 3-dimensional endoscopic ultrasonography in early gastric cancer and its clinical significance

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 5 B, 2008, Pages 2907-2912

  Futawatari, Nobue ^a   Kikuchi, Shiro ^a   Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Kida, Mitsuhiro ^b   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D endoscopic ultrasonography; Early gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Tumor volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55749112160     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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