Gastric smooth muscle tumors: Diagnostic dilemmas and factors affecting outcome

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 992-995

  Sanders, Laura ^a   Silverman, Mark ^a   Rossi, Ricardo ^a   Braasch, John ^a   Munson, Lawrence ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALAISE; MALE; MUSCLE TUMOR; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; STOMACH MUSCLE; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA, EPITHELIOID; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEURILEMMOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMOR; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029744301     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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