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ASO Author Reflections offer a brief invited commentary on the article, “The Therapeutic Survival Benefit of Splenic Hilar Nodal Dissection for Advanced Proximal Gastric Cancer Invading the Greater Curvature,” Ann Surg Oncol. 2019;26:829–35.
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Yura, M., Yoshikawa, T. ASO Author Reflections: Splenic Hilar Nodal Dissection for Proximal Advanced Gastric Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 26 (Suppl 3), 588–589 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07394-9
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