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Does the Retrieval of at Least 15 Lymph Nodes Confer an Improved Survival in Patients with Advanced Gastric Cancer?

PURPOSE: The standard surgical procedure recommended to treat gastric cancer in advanced cases is dissection of D2 lymph nodes (LNs). However, the optimum number of LNs that should be retrieved in advanced gastric cancer (AGC) remains debatable. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the optimum...

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Autor principal: Kim, Yong Il
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Gastric Cancer Association 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061538
http://dx.doi.org/10.5230/jgc.2014.14.2.111