Intractable ascites following surgery for gastric carcinoma

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 236-240

  Kumagai, Kazuhide ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis; Gastric carcinoma; Hepatic lymph fluid; Intractable ascites; Lymphorrhea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPH; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031922422     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018620     Document Type: Article

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