Occult disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes of patients with gastric carcinoma. A critical appraisal of assessment and relevance

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 394, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-113

  Scheunemann, Peter ^a   Stoecklein, Nikolas H ^a   Hermann, Kai ^b   Rehders, Alexander ^a   Eisenberger, Claus F ^a   Knoefel, Wolfram T ^a   Hosch, Stefan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disseminated tumor cells; Gastric carcinoma; Lymph nodes; Micrometastasis; Minimal residual disease

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY EPCAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 55849149024     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0369-4     Document Type: Article

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