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Relationship Between the Prognostic Accuracy of Metastatic Lymph Node Ratio and the Number of Retrieved Nodes

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  1. Department of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (Jiangsu Province Hospital), Nanjing, China

    C. J. Yu MM, W. T. He MM & P. Liu MD

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Yu, C.J., He, W.T. & Liu, P. Relationship Between the Prognostic Accuracy of Metastatic Lymph Node Ratio and the Number of Retrieved Nodes. Ann Surg Oncol 18 (Suppl 3), 216–217 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-010-1525-y

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