TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Elsayed Elbadawy Saleh AU - Ahmed Morsy Moustafa Fahmy , AU - Ahmed Osama Touny , AU - Mohammed Abdelfatah Elzohairy , TI - Comparrison between traditional and extended lymph node dissection in gastric carcinoma / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Elsayed Elbadawy Saleh , KW - Diagnoisis KW - Pathology KW - Surgical anatomy of the stomach N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department of Oncology (Surgical); Issued also as CD N2 - Gastric carcinoma remains a common disease worldwide with a dismal prognosis . The only potentially curative treatment for localized gastric cancer is complete surgical resection . A subtotal or total gastrectomy with an enbloc lymph node dissection is the standard treatment . The extent of lymph node dissection in gastric cancer continues to be a debatable issue with different approaches in Japan and the west UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -