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Relationship between lymph node metastasis and E-cadherin expression in submucosal invasive gastric carcinomas with gastric-phenotype.
The journal of medical investigation : JMI - 1 Feb 2007
Aoki Rika, Yasuda Mitsugi, Torisu Ryusuke, Nakamoto Jiro, Yamamoto Yosuke, Ito Susumu
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BACKGROUND: Recent advances in immunohistochemical staining have led to the proposition of a classification of gastric carcinomas based on cellular phenotypes, and the degree of biological malignancy of gastric-phenotype carcinomas has attracted particular attention. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: One hundred and seven submucosal (SM) invasive carcinomas encountered in our center were examined for their histological type,...
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