Peritoneal washing cytology: Prognostic
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Kodera, Yasuhiro; Yamamura, Yoshitaka; Shimizu, Yasuhiro; Torii, Akihito; Hirai,
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Background and Objectives: Free cancer cells in the abdominal cavity exfoliated from a tumor are considered to be responsible for peritoneal dissemination, the most frequent pattern of failure in gastric carcinoma patients treated with curative surgery. Methods: A prospective survival analysis was p