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Does lymph node ratio (metastasis/total lymph node count) affect survival and prognosis in gastric cancer?

Ramazan Topcu, İbrahim T. Şahiner, Murat Kendirci, Murathan Erkent, İsmail Sezikli and Mehmet B. Tutan
Saudi Medical Journal February 2022, 43 (2) 139-145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.2.20210464
Ramazan Topcu
From the Department of General Surgery (Topcu, Şahiner, Kendirci, Sezikli, Tutan), Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum; and from the Department of General Surgery (Erkent), Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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İbrahim T. Şahiner
From the Department of General Surgery (Topcu, Şahiner, Kendirci, Sezikli, Tutan), Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum; and from the Department of General Surgery (Erkent), Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Murat Kendirci
From the Department of General Surgery (Topcu, Şahiner, Kendirci, Sezikli, Tutan), Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum; and from the Department of General Surgery (Erkent), Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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İsmail Sezikli
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vol. 43 no. 2 139-145
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.2.20210464
PubMed 
35110338

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 4, 2021
  • Accepted December 7, 2021
  • Published online February 2, 2022.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Ramazan Topcu, MD⇑,
  2. İbrahim T. Şahiner, MD,
  3. Murat Kendirci, MD,
  4. Murathan Erkent, MD,
  5. İsmail Sezikli, MD and
  6. Mehmet B. Tutan, MD.
  1. From the Department of General Surgery (Topcu, Şahiner, Kendirci, Sezikli, Tutan), Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum; and from the Department of General Surgery (Erkent), Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ramazan Topcu, Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey. E-mail: topcur58{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https//orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-4868
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Saudi Medical Journal Feb 2022, 43 (2) 139-145; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2022.43.2.20210464
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