R0 resection in the treatment of gastric cancer: Room for improvement

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 16, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 3358-3370

  Biondi, Alberto ^a   Persiani, Roberto ^b   Cananzi, Ferdinando ^b   Zoccali, Marco ^b   Vigorita, Vincenzo ^b   Tufo, Andrea ^b   D'Ugo, Domenico ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Gastric cancer; Lymph node dissection; Preoperative therapy; R0 resection; Total gastrectomy

Indexed keywords

5 CHLORO 2,4 DIHYDROXYPYRIDINE PLUS OXONATE POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR; BEVACIZUMAB; CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLOXURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; KRESTIN; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; PICIBANIL;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURATIVE STOMACH SURGERY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PERITONEAL FLUID; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); GASTRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954844946     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i27.3358     Document Type: Article

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