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SUBMITTER: Hasbahceci M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4426126 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasbahceci Mustafa M Akcakaya Adem A Memmi Naim N Turkmen Ihsan I Cipe Gokhan G Yildiz Pelin P Arici Dilek Sema DS Muslumanoglu Mahmut M
Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery 20150601 3
<h4>Objective</h4>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in preoperative assessment of metastatic lymph nodes of gastric cancer.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 23 gastric cancer patients with a mean age of 59.4±10.9 years were analyzed. Lymph nodes were grouped as perigastric lesser curvature (Group Ia), perigastric greater curvature (Group Ib), D1+/D2 lymph nodes (Group II). Identification of histologically metastatic lymph nodes ...[more]