Depletion of skeletal muscle mass adversely affects long-term outcomes for men undergoing gastrectomy for gastric cancer

• Katsunobu Sakurai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: m1157473@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4789-9207

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• Naoshi Kubo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naoshi Kubo, Yutaka Tamamori

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Yutaka Tamamori ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naoshi Kubo, Yutaka Tamamori

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Naoki Aomatsu ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Takafumi Nishii ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Akiko Tachimori ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Yukio Nishiguchi ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City Juso Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Kiyoshi Maeda

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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