Surgeon subspecialty as a factor in improving long-term outcomes for gastric cancer: Twenty years of experience in Korea

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1091-1096

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

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Sungshin Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; KOREA; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78449235872     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.232     Document Type: Article

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