Extracapsular lymph node spread : A new
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Hakan Alakus; Arnulf H. Hölscher; Guido Grass; Eva Hartmann; Christian Schulte;
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background: Lymphatic spread is 1 of the most relevant prognostic factors for gastric carcinoma. the current international union against cancer (uicc) pn staging system is based on the number of metastatic lymph nodes and does not take into consideration the characteristics of the metastatic lym