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Letter to the Editor| Volume 156, ISSUE 3, P737-738, September 2014

Reply to questions in response to “Improved Survival after Adding Dissection of the Superior Mesenteric Vein Lymph Node (14v) to Standard D2 Gastrectomy for Advanced Distal Gastric Cancer”

      We appreciate the interest from Choi et al in our recently published article, “Improved Survival after Adding Dissection of the Superior Mesenteric Vein Lymph Node (14v) to Standard D2 Gastrectomy for Advanced Distal Gastric Cancer.”
      • Eom B.W.
      • Joo J.
      • Kim Y.W.
      • Reim D.
      • Park J.Y.
      • Yoon H.M.
      • et al.
      Improved survival after adding dissection of the superior mesenteric vein lymph node (14v) to standard D2 gastrectomy for advanced distal gastric cancer.
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