Endoscopically Diagnosed Gastric Cancers: Looking Alike, but Behave Differently
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Endoscopically Diagnosed Gastric Cancers: Looking Alike, but Behave Differently
cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer mortality in the world, although the overall incidence is gradually declining. 1 Gastric cancers can be largely subdivided into early and advanced lesions in nature or intestinal and diffuse type in pathology. Early gastric cancer (EGC) is defined as a cancer that does not invade beyond the submucosa regardless of lymph node involvement, based o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Endoscopy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2234-2400,2234-2443
DOI: 10.5946/ce.2013.46.2.111