Impact of diagnostic laparoscopy on the management of gastric cancer: Prospective study of 120 consecutive patients with primary gastric adenocarcinoma

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 471-475

  Lehnert, T ^a   Rudek, B ^a   Kienle, P ^a   Buhl, K ^a   Herfarth, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CARCINOMATOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEUM CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036273922     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0007-1323.2002.02067.x     Document Type: Article

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