Total gastrectomy is not always necessary for advanced gastric cancer of the cardia

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-21

  Kobayashi, Toshihiko ^a   Sugimura, Haruhiko ^a   Kimura, Taizo ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Fujinomiya City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac cancer; Gastric cancer; Prophylactic lymph node dissection; Proximal gastrectomy; Total gastrectomy

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PYLORUS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA; CARDIA; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036226972     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052000     Document Type: Article

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