Metastatic lymph node ratio in advanced gastric carcinoma: A better prognostic factor than number of metastatic lymph nodes?

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1461-1467

  Lee, So Young ^a   Hwang, Ilseon ^b   Park, Young Soo ^a   Gardner, Jerad ^c   Ro, Jae Y ^a,c  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Keimyung College University   (South Korea)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Metastatic lymph node ratio; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77951573359     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: 17912423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo_00000632     Document Type: Article

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