Validity of additional surgical resection by comparing the operative risk with the stratified lymph node metastatic risk in patients with early gastric cancer after endoscopic submucosal dissection
Abstracts Background Treatment guidelines for early gastric cancer (EGC) recommend additional gastrectomy for lesions which do not achieve curative resection after ESD, due to the potential risk of lymph node metastasis (LNM). However, many cases are found to have no LNMs, and additional gastrectomy...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-08-01
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Series: | World Journal of Surgical Oncology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12957-019-1679-4 |