Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 6 , Pages 613-624 , June 2002

Functional characteristics of the pylorus in patients undergoing pylorus-preserving gastrectomy for early gastric cancer

,Accepted 5 March 2002.

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 Reprint requests: Toshinori Ito, MD, Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871 Japan.

PII: S0039-6060(02)00004-1

doi: 10.1067/msy.2002.124630

Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 6 , Pages 613-624 , June 2002