Robotic gastrectomy as an oncologically sound alternative to laparoscopic resections for the treatment of early-stage gastric cancers

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1086-1092

  Woo, Yanghee ^a   Hyung, Woo Jin ^a   Pak, Kyung Ho ^a   Inaba, Kazuki ^a,b   Obama, Kazutaka ^c   Choi, Seung Ho ^a   Noh, Sung Hoon ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053067540     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.114     Document Type: Article

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