Sentinel lymph node concept in gastric cancer with solitary lymph node metastasis
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Sentinel lymph node concept in gastric cancer with solitary lymph node metastasis.
AIM To study the localization of the solitary metastases in relation to the primary gastric cancers and the feasibility of sentinel lymph node (SLN) concept in gastric cancer. METHODS Eighty-six patients with gastric cancer, who had only one lymph node involved, were regarded retrospectively as patients with a possible sentinel node metastasis, and the distribution of these nodes were assesse...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1007-9327
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i20.3053