Laparoscopic staging for gastric cancer

Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 611-614

  Lowy, A M ^a   Mansfield, P F ^a   Leach, S D ^a   Ajani, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0029943682     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(96)80184-X     Document Type: Article

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