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Gastrectomy for Patients with Positive Peritoneal Cytology: Comments on the Article “Positive Peritoneal Cytology in Patients with Gastric Cancer: Natural History and Outcome of 291 Patients”

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  1. Department of Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiroshi Okabe & Yoshiharu Sakai

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Okabe, H., Sakai, Y. Gastrectomy for Patients with Positive Peritoneal Cytology: Comments on the Article “Positive Peritoneal Cytology in Patients with Gastric Cancer: Natural History and Outcome of 291 Patients”. Ann Surg Oncol 18 (Suppl 3), 211–212 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-011-1716-1

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