Prognostic value of positive cytology findings from abdominal washings in patients with gastric cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 672-674

  Bonenkamp, J J ^a   Songun, I ^a   Hermans, J ^b   Van De Velde, C J H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH CANCER;

AGED; FEMALE; GASTRIC LAVAGE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029895703     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800830526     Document Type: Article

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