Role of Computer Analysis in Gastric Cancer Surgery: Evaluation of the WinEstimate v. 2.5 Computer Program

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-62

  Omejc, Mirko ^a   Mekicar, Jernej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0346373742     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7007-7     Document Type: Article

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