No survival benefit from combined pancreaticosplenectomy and total gastrectomy for gastric cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-122

  Kitamura, K ^a   Nishida, S ^a   Ichikawa, D ^a   Taniguchi, H ^a   Hagiwara, A ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a   Sawai, K ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION;

FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANCREATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032892504     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.00967.x     Document Type: Article

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