Erschienen in:
01.02.2005
It Is Still Not the Time to Change Surgical Strategy for Gastric Cancer
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verfasst von:
Angelos M. Kappas, MD, Michael Fatouros, MD, Dimitrios H. Roukos, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 2/2005
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Excerpt
We thank the authors for their interest in our editorial published in the August issue of the
Annals of Surgical Oncology1 and for their letter to the editor. They give us the opportunity to comment again on an extremely complicated topic. Does D2 over D1 dissection provide a survival benefit in patients with gastric cancer? Decades-long debate on this hot topic suggests how difficult and challenging it is to draw conclusions and make recommendations
2 about an optimal extent of lymphadenectomy. …