Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 1 , Pages 68-73 , January 2003

Editorial comment: Feasibility of central gastrectomy for gastric cancer

,Accepted 27 July 2002.

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☆ Reprint requests: Jouji Iseki, MD, Department of Surgery, Shizuoka General Hospital, 4-27-1 Kita-andou, Shizuoka City 420-0881, Japan.

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