Enhancement the prediction of postoperative survival in gastric cancer by combining the negative lymph node count with ratio between positive and examined lymph nodes

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1043-1051

  Deng, Jingyu ^a   Liang, Han ^a   Wang, Dianchang ^a   Sun, Dan ^a   Ding, Xuewei ^a   Pan, Yi ^a   Liu, Xiangyu ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952091216     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0863-0     Document Type: Article

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