Clinical implication of an insufficient number of examined lymph nodes after curative resection for gastric cancer
Cancer, 03/21/2012
Son T et al. – Lymph node–negative cancers in which ≤15 lymph node (LN) were examined, classified as N0 in the new TNM staging system, could not adequately predict patient survival after curative gastrectomy, especially in patients with early stage gastric cancer.



