Placement of retroperitoneal tube drains has no benefit in the prevention of lymphocyst formation after pelvic lymphadenectomy in women with gynaecological malignancies. When the pelvic peritoneum is ...

Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier curve of overall survival of patients operated on for gastric stump neoplasia, who underwent total or subtotal gastrectomy without resection of other organs (No), compared with ...

ABSTRACT Purpose: To explore the effect of different gastrointestinal reconstruction techniques on laparoscopic distal gastrectomy of gastric cancer on the nutritional and anemia status, and quality ...

Drs Samuel Klempner and Yelena Janjigian provide clinical pearls for understanding, detecting, and treating GEJ adenocarcinoma.

Objective: To evaluate the short-term outcomes of laparoscopic distal gastrectomy and robotic distal gastrectomy performed during the same period. Methods: This study enrolled 46 cases of laparoscopic ...

Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection was noninferior to open distal gastrectomy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer, according to 5-year follow-up ...

The median follow-up for all patients after randomization was 67.9 months. In both groups, distal gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection was performed, according to Japanese treatment guidelines.

Introduction The only curative treatment for most gastric cancer is radical gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy (LAD). Minimally invasive total gastrectomy (MIG) aims to reduce postoperative morbidity ...

Presently, the two commonly used anastomosis instruments are circular and linear staplers (17). Although sufficient research has shown the feasibility and tumor safety of laparoscopic distal ...