## BACKGROUND. In a previous study the authors demonstrated, using immunohistochemical methods for epithelial antigens, that the regional lymph nodes of gastric adenocarcinoma contained individual tumor cells or small clusters of these cells (tumor cell microinvolvement [TCM]) in over 90% of cases
Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for lymph node micrometastasis and tumor cell microinvolvement in the patients with esophageal carcinoma
β Scribed by Shoji Natsugoe; Masataka Matsumoto; Saburo Nakashima; Hiroshi Okumura; Futoshi Miyazono; Fumio Kijima; Sumiya Ishigami; Kuniaki Aridome; Chikara Kusano; Masamichi Baba; Sonshin Takao; Takashi Aikou
- Book ID
- 117466605
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 838 KB
- Volume
- 159
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0304-3835
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