Increased number of metastatic lymph nodes in adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater as a prognostic factor: A proposal of new nodal classification

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-84

  Kang, Hyo Jeong ^a   Eo, Soo Heang ^b   Kim, Song Cheol ^a   Park, Kwang Min ^a   Lee, Young Joo ^a   Lee, Sung Koo ^a   Yu, Eunsil ^a   Cho, Hyung Jun ^b   Hong, Seung Mo ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPULLA OF VATER ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; TUMOR VOLUME; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA; BILE DUCT TUMOR; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH KOREA; VATER PAPILLA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPULLA OF VATER; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899483883     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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