Pattern of lymph node involvement in proximal gastric cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1687-1692

  Ishikawa, Shinji ^a   Shimada, Shinya ^b   Miyanari, Nobutomo ^a   Hirota, Masahiko ^a   Takamori, Hiroshi ^a   Baba, Hideo ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yatsushiro Health Insurance General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SUBMUCOSA;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 68149169199     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0083-6     Document Type: Article

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