Surgical treatment of Borrmann type IV gastric carcinoma: relevance of lymphadenectomy in improving survival. - Concepedia

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Surgical treatment of Borrmann type IV gastric carcinoma: relevance of lymphadenectomy in improving survival.

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1996

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Yasuhiro Kodera, Y Yamamura, Akihito Torii, Kazunobu UESAKA, Toshihiro Hirai, K. Yasui, Takayuki Morimoto, Tomoyuki Kato, T Kito

Abstract

An improvement in outcome was presumably achieved through extended lymphadenectomy. However, the survival rate remains unsatisfactory, and further advances in the treatment of this disease are needed.