Laparoscopic ultrasonography for staging gastroesophageal cancer

Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 10-17

  Finch, Margaret D ^a,b   John, Timothy G ^a   Garden, O James ^a   Allan, Paul L ^a   Paterson Brown, Simon ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031021154     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90176-8     Document Type: Article

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