Impact on survival of the number of lymph nodes removed in patients with node-negative gastric cancer submitted to extended lymph node dissection

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-311

  Biffi, R ^a   Botteri, E ^a   Cenciarelli, S ^a   Luca, F ^a   Pozzi, S ^a   Valvo, M ^a   Sonzogni, A ^a   Chiappa, A ^a   Leal Ghezzi, T ^a   Rotmensz, N ^a   Bagnardi, V ^a,b   Andreoni, B ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extended lymph node dissection; Gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; Preoperative chemotherapy; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952447867     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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