Improved quality of life outcomes after laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for early gastric cancer: Results of a prospective randomized clinical trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 721-727

  Kim, Young Woo ^a,b,d   Baik, Yong Hae ^b,e   Yun, Young Ho ^a   Nam, Byung Ho ^c   Kim, Dae Hyun ^d   Choi, Il Ju ^a,b   Bae, Jae Moon ^a,b,f  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Center for Gastric Cancer   (South Korea)

^c Cancer Biostatics Branch   (South Korea)

^d National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^e Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^f Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY IMAGE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECREASED APPETITE; DIET RESTRICTION; DYSPHASIA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; ROLE CHANGE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL WOUND; XEROSTOMIA; ADENOCARCINOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56149107122     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318185e62e     Document Type: Article

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