Anastomotic diameters and strictures following esophagectomy and total gastrectomy in 256 patients

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 78-85

  Johansson, Jan ^a   Zilling, Thomas ^a   Von Holstein, Christer Staël ^a   Johnsson, Folke ^a   Öberg, Stefan ^a   Walther, Bruno ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGOJEJUNOSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STAPLER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033992043     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689910015     Document Type: Article

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