Treatment of early gastric cancer in the elderly patient: Results of EMR and gastrectomy at a national referral center in Japan

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 868-871

  Etoh, Tsuyoshi ^b   Katai, Hitoshi ^a   Fukagawa, Takeo ^b   Sano, Takeshi ^b   Oda, Ichiro ^b   Gotoda, Takuji ^b   Yoshimura, Kimio ^b   Sasako, Mitsuru ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27844457576     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.09.012     Document Type: Article

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