Preoperative prediction of lymph node status in gastric cancer patients with the help of computer analysis

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-261

  Mekicar, Jernej ^a   Omejc, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastases; Stage appropriate surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH CANCER;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649878577     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227296     Document Type: Article

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