Open AccessPrognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio on gastric cancer after curative distal gastrectomy
Author(s) -
ChangMing Huang,
Jiumao Lin,
ChaoHui Zheng,
Ping Li,
JianWei Xie,
Bijuan Lin,
Jia-Bin Wang
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v16.i16.2055
Subject(s) - medicine , gastrectomy , lymph node , proportional hazards model , cancer , multivariate analysis , gastroenterology , lymph , univariate analysis , correlation , survival analysis , survival rate , oncology , pathology , geometry , mathematics
To investigate the prognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio (rN) on gastric cancer after curative distal gastrectomy.