title: Extremity in surgeon volume: Korea may be the place to go if you want to be a decent gastric surgeon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan. ykodera@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kodera
mesh_terms: D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D059032:Learning Curve; D056910:Republic of Korea; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D066231:Surgeons / Q000193:education; D014481:United States
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