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From: Is vagotomy necessary in palliative surgery for incurable advanced gastric cancer?: a retrospective case–control study

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Flow sheet of patient exclusion. From January 01, 2000, to December 31, 2021, the medical records of 147 patients who underwent gastrojejunostomy at the Yeungnam University Medical Center were reviewed. Those who met the exclusion criteria were removed and a final total of 84 patients with gastrojejunostomy due to LUGC or GCDM remained. Abbreviations: LUGC, locally unresectable gastric cancer; GCDM, gastric cancer with distant metastasis; PGJ, simple palliative gastrojejunostomy; PGJV, palliative gastrojejunostomy with vagotomy

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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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