Clinical signifinance of CT-defined minimal ascites in patients with gastric cancer

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 42, 2005, Pages 6587-6592

  Chang, Dong Kyung ^a   Kim, Ji Won ^a   Kim, Byung Kwan ^a   Lee, Kook Lae ^a   Song, Chi Sung ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Song, In Sung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ascites; Gastric cancer; Peritoneal carcinomatosis

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER INVASION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERITONEUM CANCER; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY; CANCER STAGING; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ASCITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30444433428     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i42.6587     Document Type: Article

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