The role of E-cadherin expression in the treatment of western undifferentiated early gastric cancer: Can a biological factor predict lymph node metastasis?

• Gaetano Piccolo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gpiccolo1983@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4942-7705

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• Antonio Zanghì,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Maria Di Vita,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Pietro Bisagni,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Ospedale Maggiore di Lodi, ASST di Lodi, Lodi, Italy

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• Francesca Lecchi,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation General Surgery Residency Program, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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• Andrea Cavallaro,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Francesco Cardì,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Emanuele Lo Menzo,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, United States of America

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• Alessandro Cappellani

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialty, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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