Lymph node dissection in the resection of gastric cancer: Review of existing evidence

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 137-148

  Tanizawa, Yutaka ^a   Terashima, Masanori ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph nodes; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER; ESOPHAGUS METASTASIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLEEN CANCER; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATECTOMY; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957962267     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-010-0560-5     Document Type: Review

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