Morbidity and mortality rates following gastric cancer surgery and contiguous organ removal, a population based study

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
10070447	European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO)	2005	4 Pages	PDF

Abstract

The risk of more extensive resection is not balanced by improved survival in this population based series. Extending gastric resection to involve contiguous organs should be confined to highly selected cases.

Keywords

Survival Surgical resection Gastric cancer Morbidity Mortality

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Health Sciences Medicine and Dentistry Oncology

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Morbidity and mortality rates following gastric cancer surgery and contiguous organ removal, a population based study

Authors

S. Nanthakumaran, E. Fernandes, A.M. Thompson, T. Rapson, F.J. Gilbert, K.G.M. Park,