Influencing factors and clinical significance of the metastatic lymph nodes ratio in gastric adenocarcinoma

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yu, Ji Wei ^a   Wu, Ju Gang ^a   Zheng, Lin Hai ^a   Zhang, Biao ^a   Ni, Xiao Chun ^a   Li, Xiao Qiang ^a   Jiang, Bo Jian ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 67149087244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17569966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-9966-28-55     Document Type: Article

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