Clinical implication of an insufficient number of examined lymph nodes after curative resection for gastric cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4687-4693

  Son, Taeil ^a   Hyung, Woo Jin ^a   Lee, Joong Ho ^a   Kim, Yoo Min ^a   Kim, Hyoung Il ^a   An, Ji Yeong ^a   Cheong, Jae Ho ^a   Noh, Sung Hoon ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cancer staging; lymph nodes; lymphatic metastasis; prognosis; stomach neoplasm

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866504354     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27426     Document Type: Article

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