Gastric cancer and the search for a good prognostic classification: A challenge

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-116

  Cidón, Esther Uña ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pathological classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

EID: 77955438593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787023     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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