## Background: The lymph node (n) classification in the international union against cancer (uicc) tnm staging system for gastric adenocarcinoma has been revised. the new classification is based on the number of positive regional lymph nodes instead of the anatomic location of the regional lymph nod
Evaluation of the validity of the 1997 International Union Against Cancer TNM classification of major salivary gland carcinoma
โ Scribed by Tsutomu Numata; Hiroyuki Muto; Keisuke Shiba; Hiroshi Nagata; Nobuhisa Terada; Akiyoshi Konno
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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