Between 1969 and 1983, 123 patients with Hodgkin's disease underwent a staging laparotomy. The stages of 34 (27%) patients were changed by laparatomy. Twenty-nine patients (23 %) were upstaged, five (4%) downstaged. The most considerable change was found in stage 111. The accuracy of preoperative l
Technique of exploratory laparotomy and staging in hodgkin's disease
β Scribed by Arnold Mittelman; Elias G. Elias
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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