The rationality of N3 classification in the 7th edition of the international union against cancer TNM staging system for gastric adenocarcinomas: A case-control study

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 893-896

  Jun, Kyong Hwa ^a   Lee, Jeong Sun ^b   Kim, Ji Hyun ^a   Kim, Jin Jo ^b   Chin, Hyung Min ^a   Park, Seung Man ^b  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; N3; Overall survival; TNM staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; GASTRECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84923118491     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2014.06.014     Document Type: Article

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