Adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia: Treatment via a left thoracoabdominal approach

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 584-590

  Lekakos, Leonidas N ^a   Triantafillopoulos, John K ^a   Milingos, Nicholas D ^a   Sfikakis, Petros G ^a,b  

^a TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CARDIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARDIA; ESOPHAGECTOMY; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036635702     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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