Lymph Node Dissection in Curative Gastrectomy for Advanced Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Surgical resection with lymph node dissection is the only potentially curative therapy for gastric cancer. However, the appropriate extent of lymph node dissection accompanied by gastrectomy for cancer remains controv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tamura, Shigeyuki, Takeno, Atsushi, Miki, Hirofumi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263688/