Authors' response: Reply from Mr H. R. Matthews and Dr R. B. Hopkinson
β Scribed by H. R. Matthews; R. B. Hopkinson; K. J. Pasi; M. S. Hockey; J. D. Hamer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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are to be congratulated on their results for oesophageal resection (Br J Surg 1984; 71: 75C-1) and the honesty with which they are presented. I concur with their conclusion that in appropriate patients surgical resection should be the treatment of choice. Two points are worthy of note. The proporti
Resectability of an advanced gastric cancer depends, to a large extent, on the philosophy of the individual surgeon. We do not suggest that CT evidence of direct invasion of a single organ indicates unresectability. Our findings did, however, show that when the preoperative CT scan demonstrated a tu