What is the long-term safety and efficacy of laparoscopic resection for gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors?: Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 76-77

  Roggin, Kevin K ^a   Posner, Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB; PLACEBO;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPHAGIA; FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; METASTASIS; MITOSIS INDEX; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; ULCER; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 33947425532     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0686     Document Type: Short Survey

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