Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors: A surgical point of view

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2447-2451

  Stift, Anton ^a   Friedl, Josef ^a   Gnant, Michael ^a   Herbst, Friedrich ^a   Jakesz, Raimund ^a   Wenzl, Etienne ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 4344563033     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i16.2447     Document Type: Article

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