Seronegative alpha-fetoprotein-producing early gastric cancer treated with endoscopic mucosal resection and additional surgery

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 926-930

  Hirasaki, Shoji ^b   Tanimizu, Masahito ^b   Tsuzuki, Takao ^b   Tsubouchi, Eiji ^b   Hidaka, Satoshi ^b   Hyodo, Ichinosuke ^b   Tajiri, Hisao ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein; Early gastric carcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Lymph node metastasis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH MUCOSA; SUBMUCOSA;

AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8844268401     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.926     Document Type: Article

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