Appropriateness of splenectomy for advanced cancer located in the upper third of the stomach

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1219-1220

  Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Yamashita, Keishi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 77955654670     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0710-1     Document Type: Letter

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