Effectiveness of paraaortic lymph node dissection for advanced gastric cancer.

Hiroshi Isozaki, Kunio Okajima, Koji Fujii, Eiki Nomura, Nobuhiro Izumi, Hideaki Mabuchi, Masaki Nakamura, Hiroko Hara

PubMed · 1999 · 65 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Paraaortic lymph node dissection for advanced gastric cancer was effective, especially when it was done prophylactically and when the number of paraaortic lymph node metastases were 2 or less.