Argon plasma coagulation for early gastric cancer: Technique and outcome

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-54

  Kitamura, Tadashi ^a   Tanabe, Satoshi ^b   Koizumi, Wasaburou ^b   Mitomi, Hiroyuki ^b   Saigenji, Katsunori ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SUBMUCOSA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29244456120     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.08.009     Document Type: Article

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