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    Prognostic Significance of Osteopontin Expression in Human Gastric Carcinoma

    Osteopontin (OPN) is a secreted, integrin-binding glycophosphoprotein that has been implicated in the progression of various solid tumors. To evaluate the clinical significance of OPN in gastric carcinoma, we ...

    Motoshige Higashiyama MD, Tetsuo Ito MD, PhD in Annals of Surgical Oncology (2007)

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    Prediction of Lymph Node Metastasis with Use of Artificial Neural Networks Based on Gene Expression Profiles in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Background: The aim of the study was (1) to detect candidate genes involved in lymph node metastasis in esophageal cancers and (2) to investigate whether we can estimate and predict occur...

    Takatsugu Kan MD, PhD, Yutaka Shimada MD, PhD, FACS in Annals of Surgical Oncology (2004)

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    Paratracheal lymph node metastasis is associated with cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    Background: We determined which lymph node metastases were associated with cervical lymph node metastases of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

    Fumiaki Sato MD, PhD, Yutaka Shimada MD, PhD, FACS in Annals of Surgical Oncology (2002)