Selective lymphadenectomy of para-aortic lymph nodes for advanced gastric cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-514

  Fujimura, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Keishi ^a   Oyama, Katsunobu ^a   Funaki, Hiroshi ^a   Fujita, Hideto ^a   Kinami, Shinichi ^a   Ninomiya, Itasu ^a   Fushida, Sachio ^a   Nishimura, Genichi ^a   Kayahara, Masato ^a   Ohta, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extended lymphadenectomy; Gastric cancer; Para aortic lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADOLESCENT; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70349339203     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or_00000464     Document Type: Article

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