The difficult choice between total and proximal gastrectomy in proximal early gastric cancer

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 587-591

  An, Ji Yeong ^a   Youn, Ho Geun ^a   Choi, Min Gew ^a   Noh, Jae Hyung ^a   Sohn, Tae Sung ^a   Kim, Sung ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early gastric cancer; Proximal gastrectomy; Total gastrectomy; Upper third stomach

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL GASTRECTOMY; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; STENOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 52049088279     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.09.040     Document Type: Article

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