Laparoscopy significantly improves the perceived preoperative stage of gastric cancer

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 225-229

  Blackshaw, Guy R J C ^a   Barry, Jonathan D ^a   Edwards, Paul ^a   Allison, Miles C ^a   Thomas, Gerald V ^a   Lewis, Wyn G ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Laparoscopy; Staging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0942298644     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-003-0257-0     Document Type: Article

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