Randomized evidence for laparoscopic gastrectomy short-term quality of life improvement and challenges for improving long-term outcomes

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-350

  Liakakos, Theodore ^a   Roukos, Dimitrios H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UVOMORULIN;

ALLELE; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; BLEEDING; BODY IMAGE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET RESTRICTION; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY ASSISTED DISTAL GASTRECTOMY; LETTER; OPEN DISTAL GASTRECTOMY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL WOUND; ADENOCARCINOMA; LAPAROSCOPY; NOTE; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949106053     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b1e890     Document Type: Letter

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