Laparoscopic versus open distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and high-quality nonrandomized studies

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 446-456

  Viñuela, Eduardo F ^a   Gonen, Mithat ^a   Brennan, Murray F ^a   Coit, Daniel G ^a   Strong, Vivian E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC DISTAL GASTRECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; META ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPEN DISTAL GASTRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857657294     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31824682f4     Document Type: Review

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