Open AccessDoes N ratio affect survival in D1 and D2 lymph node dissection for gastric cancer?
Author(s) -
İbrahim Sakçak,
Barış Doğu Yıldız,
Fatih Mehmet Avşar,
Saadet Akturan,
Kemal Kılıç,
Erdal Coşgun,
Enver Okan Hamamcı
Publication year - 2011
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.v17.i35.4007
Subject(s) - medicine , dissection (medical) , lymph node , cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , lymph , adenocarcinoma , gastroenterology , surgery , pathology , biology , paleontology
To identify whether there could have been changes in survival if lymph node ratio (N ratio) had been used.