Hepatic Arterial Nodal Metastases in Pancreatic Cancer: Is This the Node of Importance?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1092-1097

  LaFemina, J ^a   Chou, J F ^a   Gonen M ^a   Rocha, F G ^a   Correa Gallego, C ^a   Kingham, T P ^a   Fong, Y ^a   D'Angelica, M I ^a   Jarnagin, W R ^a   DeMatteo, R P ^a   Allen, P J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease free survival; Hepatic artery lymph node; Overall survival; Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84877763887     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-012-2071-7     Document Type: Article

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