Splenectomy in cancer gastrectomy: Recommendation of spleen-preserving for early stages

International Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-154

  Yoshino, K ^a,b   Yamada, Y ^a   Asanuma, F ^a   Aizawa, K ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric neoplasms; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROSA; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030858588     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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