Surgical Oncology
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 379-384 , December 2009

Impact of total retrieved lymph nodes on staging and survival of patients with gastric cancer invading the subserosa

,Accepted 18 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.suronc.2008.09.002

Surgical Oncology
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