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Overall survival of patients with delayed diagnosis was shorter than that of patients with timely diagnosis, if initial patients who died due to immediate post-operative complication (< 7 days) were excluded (mean survival, 22.5 ± 2.6 vs. 122.0 ± 29.1 months, p = 0.038).
