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Expanding laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer outside Korea and Japan

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Hottenrott, C. Expanding laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer outside Korea and Japan. Surg Endosc 26, 3700–3701 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-012-2393-2

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