Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 197-203 , February 2010

Prognostic impact of the width of subserosal invasion in gastric cancer invading the subserosal layer

  • Koji Soga, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • Department of Pathology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Daisuke Ichikawa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Daisuke Ichikawa, MD, Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 6028566, Japan.
    • ,
  • Satoru Yasukawa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Takeshi Kubota, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Shojiro Kikuchi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Hitoshi Fujiwara, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Kazuma Okamoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Toshiya Ochiai, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Chohei Sakakura, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Yukihito Kokuba, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Akio Yanagisawa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
    • ,
  • Eigo Otsuji, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Digestive Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

,Accepted 30 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.032

Surgery
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