Open AccessReview of Consecutive Ten Year Intervals
Author(s) -
Kenneth Adashek,
James R. Sanger,
William P. Longmire
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-197901000-00002
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , consistency (knowledge bases) , general surgery , adenocarcinoma , surgery , cancer , geometry , mathematics
Records were reviewed for all patients who underwent primary treatment for adenocarcinoma of the stomach at two UCLA hospitals between 1956 and 1975. Division of the data into two, ten-year time periods reveals a pattern of unchanging presentation and pathologic characteristics which probably accounts for the unaltered response to operative therapy. The consistency of certain prognostic findings justifies a surgical approach in which extensive resections are only selectively employed.