Adjustment of N stages of gastric cancer by the ratio between the metastatic and examined lymph nodes

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1868-1874

  Kim, Chan Young ^a   Yang, Doo Hyun ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649158710     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0430-8     Document Type: Article

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