A Lymph Node Staging System for Gastric Cancer: A Hybrid Type Based on Topographic and Numeric Systems.

Although changing a lymph node staging system from an anatomically based system to a numerically based system in gastric cancer offers better prognostic performance, several problems can arise: it does not offer information on the anatomical extent of disease and cannot represent the extent of lymph...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Yoon Young Choi, Ji Yeong An, Hitoshi Katai, Yasuyuki Seto, Takeo Fukagawa, Yasuhiro Okumura, Dong Wook Kim, Hyoung-Il Kim, Jae-Ho Cheong, Woo Jin Hyung, Sung Hoon Noh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149555&type=printable