Function-preserving gastrectomy for early gastric cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2683-2692

  Hiki, Naoki ^a   Nunobe, Souya ^a   Kubota, Takeshi ^a   Jiang, Xiaohua ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EARLY CANCER; EARLY GASTRIC CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; FUNCTION PRESERVING GASTRECTOMY; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC DYSMOTILITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; JEJUNUM INTERPOSITION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PYLORUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REMNANT STOMACH CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH STUMP CARCINOMA; SURGEON; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ESOPHAGUS; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LAPAROSCOPY; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; PYLORUS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84880319844     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-2931-8     Document Type: Article

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