When is curative gastrectomy justified for gastric cancer with positive peritoneal lavage cytology but negative macroscopic peritoneal implant?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1131-1134

  Miyashiro, Isao ^a   Takachi, Ko ^a   Doki, Yuichiro ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Ohigashi, Hiroaki ^a   Murata, Kohei ^a   Sasaki, Yo ^a   Imaoka, Shingi ^a   Nakaizumi, Akihiko ^a   Takenaka, Akemi ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^b   Hiratsuka, Masahiro ^c  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b SAKAI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Department of Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PROGNOSIS; RECTOUTERINE POUCH; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH WALL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PERITONEUM; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27744569791     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7703-6     Document Type: Article

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