The importance of staging laparoscopy for the treatment of gastric cancer

Onkologie

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 486-491

  Schlag, P M ^a,b   Hunerbein M ^a   Rau, B ^a  

^a Section of Pathology   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Laparoscopy; Staging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STOMACH CANCER; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032426822     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026891     Document Type: Article

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