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01-06-2019 | Letter to the Editor

A remark on: do all the European surgeons perform the same D2? The need for D2 audit in Europe

Author: Dezső Tóth

Published in: Updates in Surgery | Issue 2/2019

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We read the article by Bencivenga et al. entitled ‘Do all the European surgeons perform the same D2? The need of D2 audit in Europe’ [1] with interest. We congratulate the authors on their novel way of comparing the different D2 dissections in association with the number of retrieved lymph nodes. …

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Title: A remark on: do all the European surgeons perform the same D2? The need for D2 audit in Europe
Author: Dezső Tóth
Publication date: 01-06-2019
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Updates in Surgery / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 2038-131X
Electronic ISSN: 2038-3312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13304-018-0608-3

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