title: Psychiatric consequences of radical curative surgery for gastric cancer.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, England, UK.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Everitt
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Noble
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Hosie
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery