Gastric cancer: Predictors of recurrence when lymph-node dissection is inadequate

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 69-

  Uña, Esther ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; LETTER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70350724861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-7-69     Document Type: Article

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