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Minimum Number of Lymph Nodes that Should Be Examined for the International Union Against Cancer/American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM Classification of Gastric Carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Takashi Ichikura; Toshiya Ogawa; Kentaro Chochi; Toshinobu Kawabata; Hidekazu Sugasawa; Hidetaka Mochizuki

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 64 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0364-2313
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6730-9

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