Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 6 , Pages 630-635 , June 2002

Lymph node micrometastasis and lymphatic mapping determined by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in pN0 gastric carcinoma

,Accepted 3 March 2002.

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☆ Reprint requests: Masataka Matsumoto, First Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University School of Medicine, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan.

PII: S0039-6060(02)00006-5

doi: 10.1067/msy.2002.124632

Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 6 , Pages 630-635 , June 2002

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