Staging LaParoscopy to Assess Lymph NOde InvoLvement in Advanced GAstric Cancer (POLA)—Study protocol for a single-arm prospective observational multicenter study

• Karol Rawicz-Pruszyński ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karol Rawicz-Pruszyński, Katarzyna Sędłak

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

  * E-mail: krpruszynski@gmail.com, karolrawiczpruszynski@umlub.pl

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-2114

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• Katarzyna Sędłak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karol Rawicz-Pruszyński, Katarzyna Sędłak

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3152-1063

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• Zuzanna Pelc,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Radosław Mlak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Body Composition Research Laboratory, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Jakub Litwiński,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Paweł Mańko,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Krzysztof Zinkiewicz,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Iwona Paśnik,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Katarzyna Cięszczyk,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Timothy Pawlik,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Bruno Märkl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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• Maria Erodotou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Wojciech P. Polkowski

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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