Prognostic significance of a new system for categorization of the number of lymph node metastases in gastric cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 58, Issue 106, 2011, Pages 642-646

  Funada, Tomoya ^a   Kochi, Mitugu ^a   Yamazaki, Shintaro ^a   Fujii, Masashi ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79958178869     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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