Advanced gastric cancer in the middle one-third of the stomach: Should surgenos perform total gastrectomy?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 451-456

  Jang, You Jin ^a   Park, Man Sik ^b   Kim, Jong Han ^a   Park, Sung Soo ^a   Park, Seung Heum ^a   Kim, Seung Joo ^a   Kim, Chong Suk ^a   Mok, Young Jae ^a  

^a College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Extent of gastric resection; Long term prognosis; Middle third AGC; Surgical option for mid gastric cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77950856682     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21431     Document Type: Article

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