Prognostic significance of the number of metastatic lymph nodes: Is UICC/TNM node classification perfectly suitable for early gastric cancer?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-67

  Huang, Baojun ^a   Zheng, Xinyu ^a   Wang, Zhenning ^a   Wang, Meixian ^a   Dong, Yulan ^a   Zhao, Bo ^b   Xu, Huimian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SEER PROGRAM; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549100105     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0193-7     Document Type: Article

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