Lymph node retrieval and examination during the implementation of extended lymph node dissection for gastric cancer in a non-specialized western institution

Updates in Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-99

  Catarci, Marco ^a   Montemurro, Leonardo Antonio ^a   Di Cintio, Antonio ^a   Ghinassi, Sabrina ^a   Coppola, Luigi ^a   Pinnarelli, Luigi ^a   Belardi, Augusto ^a   Koch, Maurizio ^a   Grassi, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lymph node dissection; Stomach neoplasms; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84862747930     PISSN: 2038131X     EISSN: 20383312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-010-0017-8     Document Type: Article

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