Laparoscopy-Assisted Distal Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer: Is It Beneficial for Patients of Heavier Weight?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 680-685

  Noshiro, Hirokazu ^a   Shimizu, Shuji ^a   Nagai, Eishi ^a   Ohuchida, Kenoki ^a   Tanaka, Masao ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH I; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY ASSISTED DISTAL GASTRECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANASTOMOSIS; COMORBIDITY; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0642277222     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000094302.51616.2a     Document Type: Article

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