Solitary metastasis to a superior mediastinal lymph node after distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a case report

Abstract Background Mediastinal lymph node metastases occasionally occur in patients of advanced gastric cancer of the cardia with esophageal invasion, but they rarely occur in patients with gastric cancer of other sites. This report describes a case of a solitary metastasis to t a superior mediasti...

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Main Authors: Naoki Kubo, Junichi Yoshizawa, Takaomi Hanaoka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-018-4555-7