Subclassification of stage IV gastric cancer (IVa, IVb, and IVc) and prognostic significance of substages

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 484-492

  Ma, Yan ^a   Xue, Yingwei ^a   Li, Yanfeng ^a   Lan, Xiuwen ^a   Zhang, Yongle ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Stage IV; Subclassification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950520809     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-009-1110-5     Document Type: Article

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