Clinicopathological features of upper third gastric cancer during a 21-year period (single center analysis)

Journal of Gastric Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 212-218

  Jang, Je Ho ^a   Beron, Reinaldo Isaacs ^b   Ahn, Hye Seong ^a   Kong, Seong Ho ^a   Lee, Hyuk Joon ^a   Kim, Woo Ho ^a   Lee, Kuhn Uk ^a   Yang, Han Kwang ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gastric cardia; Gastric fundus; Incidence; Prognoisis; Stomach neoplasms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867510752     PISSN: 2093582X     EISSN: 20935641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5230/jgc.2010.10.4.212     Document Type: Review

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