Is gastroscopy still a valid diagnostic tool in detecting gastric MALT lymphomas? A dilemma beyond the eye

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 469-474

  Kelessis, N G ^a   Vassilopoulos, P P ^b   Tsamakidis, K G ^b   Bai, M G ^c   Avital, S ^a   Rosenthal, R J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b Saint Savvas Anticancer Institute of Athens   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gastroscopy; Macroscopic pattern; MALT lymphomas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; DUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345269691     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-8544-0     Document Type: Article

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