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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 14, 2005; 11(38): 5920-5925
Published online Oct 14, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i38.5920
Published online Oct 14, 2005. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i38.5920
Prognostic implication of isolated tumor cells and micrometastases in regional lymph nodes of gastric cancer
Hye Seung Lee, Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi 463-707, Korea
Min A Kim, Woo Ho Kim, Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea
Han-Kwang Yang, Department of Surgery and Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Byung Lan Lee, Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Author contributions: All authors contributed equally to the work.
Supported by a grant (FG03-11-02) from the 21C Frontier Functional Human Genome Project from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea
Correspondence to: Dr. Woo Ho Kim, Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. woohokim@snu.ac.kr
Telephone: +82-2-7408269 Fax: +82-2-7655600
Received: February 24, 2005
Revised: May 8, 2005
Accepted: May 12, 2005
Published online: October 14, 2005
Revised: May 8, 2005
Accepted: May 12, 2005
Published online: October 14, 2005
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