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Gastric cancer: Current status of lymph node dissection
Maurizio Degiuli, Giovanni De Manzoni, Alberto Di Leo, Domenico D’Ugo, Erica Galasso, Daniele Marrelli, Roberto Petrioli, Karol Polom, Franco Roviello, Francesco Santullo, Mario Morino
Maurizio Degiuli, Erica Galasso, Mario Morino, Department of Surgery, University of Turin, Citta della Salute e della Scienza, 10126 Turin, Italy
Giovanni De Manzoni, Department of Surgery, University of Verona, Ospedale Borgo Trento, 37126 Verona, Italy
Alberto Di Leo, Division of Surgery, Ospedale di Arco, 38062 Arco TN, Italy
Domenico D’Ugo, Francesco Santullo, Department of Surgery, University “Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, “A.Gemelli” University Hospital, 00168 Rome, Italy
Daniele Marrelli, Franco Roviello, Department of Surgery, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Roberto Petrioli, Department of Oncology, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Karol Polom, Department of Surgery, Wielkopolskie Centrum Onkologii, 61-866 Poznan, Poland
Author contributions: Degiuli M designed the article structure; Degiuli M, De Manzoni G, Di Leo A, D’Ugo D, Galasso E, Marrelli D, Petrioli R, Roviello F, Santullo F and Morino M. contributed equally to this work and wrote the paper.
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Correspondence to: Maurizio Degiuli, MD, Chirurgia Generale Universitaria 1, Department of Surgery, University of Turin, Citta della salute e della scienza, 10126 Turin, Italy.
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Received: July 7, 2015
Peer-review started: July 8, 2015
First decision: August 26, 2015
Revised: October 9, 2015
Accepted: January 17, 2016
Article in press: January 18, 2016
Published online: March 14, 2016
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