Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 837-840 , November 2009

Exodus of Kampo, traditional Japanese medicine, from the complementary and alternative medicines: Is it time yet?

  • Toru Kono, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Toru Kono, MD, PhD, Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College, 2-1-1-1 Midorigaoka-Higashi, Asahikawa, Japan.
    • ,
  • Takashi Kanematsu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
    • ,
  • Masaki Kitajima, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • International University of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan

,Accepted 3 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.012

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