Staging laparoscopy for gastrointestinal malignancies: Current indications

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2001, Pages 25-28

  Bemelman, W A ^a   Nieveen van Dijkum, E J M ^a   De Wit, L T ^a   Gouma, D J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; METASTASIS;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0035132155     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-10694     Document Type: Article

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