Impact of Lymphatic Vessel Invasion on Survival in Curative Resected Gastric Cancer

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1526-1531

  Liu, Enyi ^a   Zhong, Meizuo ^a   Xu, Fang ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Huang, Jin ^a   Zeng, Shan ^a   Lu, Jingchen ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Li, Jianhuang ^a   Jiang, Hairong ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Lymphatic vessel invasion; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 80051945858     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1600-0     Document Type: Article

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