Treatment of Advanced Gastric Cancer
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Treatment of advanced gastric cancer
Radical gastrectomy with regional lymphadenectomy is the mainstay of curative treatment for advanced gastric cancer that has penetrated the submucosa: the depth of invasion (i.e extension into the muscularis propria) has been used to divide gastric carcinoma in early and advanced stages (1). The procedure can be undertaken in the context of total or subtotal gastrectomy where D2 lymphadenectomy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2384-0293
DOI: 10.12701/yujm.2007.24.2s.s125