Quality of life in the long-term survivors after total gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-124

  Tyrväinen, Tuula ^a   Sand, Juhani ^a   Sintonen, Harri ^b   Nordback, Isto ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

15D; Gastric carcinoma; Quality of life; SF 36; Total gastrectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BODY MASS INDEX; COLONIC POUCHES; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP DISORDERS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; URINATION DISORDERS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 38649131768     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20925     Document Type: Article

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