Different pathological features and prognosis in gastric cancer patients coming from high-risk and low-risk areas of Italy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-50

  Marrelli, Daniele ^a,b   Pedrazzani, Corrado ^a   Corso, Giovanni ^a   Neri, Alessandro ^a   Di Martino, Marianna ^a   Pinto, Enrico ^a   Roviello, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68249104799     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181ad6487     Document Type: Article

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