Reply to letter: "lymph node ratio for gastric cancer: useful instrument or just an expedient to retrieve less lymph nodes?"

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Jiping Wang. Ann Surg. 2014 Apr.

. 2014 Apr;259(4):e66.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000315.

¹ Division of Surgical Oncology Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA wang_buffalo@yahoo.com; jwang39@partners.org.

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