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Psychiatric consequences of radical curative surgery for gastric cancer
N J Everitt1, T W Noble, K B Hosie
1Department of Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, England, UK.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
|September 1, 1995
Abstract:
Radical resection of gastric cancer offers the best hope of cure, but carries the risk of significant psychological morbidity in addition to the well-documented physical complications. In the case presented, recognition of clinical depression after thoracoabdominal gastrectomy enabled successful psychological intervention.