Editorial: Is lymphadenectomy a predictor or savior for patients with gastric cancer?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1257-1258

  Takeuchi, Hiroya ^a   Kitagawa, Yuko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; STOMACH CANCER; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77952094428     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-0942-2     Document Type: Editorial

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