Background. This study evaluated the prognosis of patients with carcinoma in the gastric remnant stump after distal gastrectomy for benign disease (stump cancer). Methods. Twenty patients with resected stump cancer were studied and compared with 266 patients with resected primary cancer in the uppe
Carcinoma of the stomach following partial gastrectomy for benign gastroduodenal lesions
β Scribed by John C. Nicholls
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 531 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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