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Value of Visceral Fat Area in the Preoperative Discrimination of Peritoneal Metastasis from Gastric Cancer in Patients with Different Body Mass Index: A Prospective Study

PURPOSE: Although peritoneal metastasis (PM) is associated with poor prognosis in gastric cancer (GC) patients, it is difficult to discriminate preoperatively. Our previous study has demonstrated visceral fat area (VFA) is a better obesity index than body mass index (BMI) in predicting abdominal met...

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Autores principales: Huang, He, Yang, Xinxin, Sun, Jing, Zhu, Ce, Wang, Xiang, Zeng, Yunpeng, Xu, Jingxuan, Mao, Chenchen, Shen, Xian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7395682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32801890
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S257849