Clinicopathologic features of gastric carcinoma with signet ring cell histology

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 601-606

  Zhang, Ming ^a   Zhu, Guanyu ^a   Zhang, Hongfeng ^a   Gao, Hongyu ^a   Xue, Yingwei ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Curative resection; Gastric cancer; Prognosis; Signet ring cell carcinoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77950518980     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-009-1127-9     Document Type: Article

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