Postoperative complications requiring relaparotomies after 700 gastrectomies performed for gastric cancer

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 270-273

  Shchepotin, Igor B ^a   Evans, Stephen R T ^a,c   Chorny, Vyacheslav A ^b   Shabahang, Mohsen ^a   Buras, Robert R ^a   Nauta, Russell J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b R E KAVETSKY INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGOJEJUNOSTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030027232     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(97)89567-0     Document Type: Article

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