Characteristics and Outcomes of Laparoscopic Surgery in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux and Related Disease: A Single Center Experience.

CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of the patients who underwent LARS at our hospital differed according to pathophysiology and from those in western countries. Satisfactory outcomes depended on the pathophysiology of individual patients.
PMID: 28331141 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Journal of Nippon Medical School - March 25, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Nomura T, Iwakiri K, Matsutani T, Hagiwara N, Fujita I, Nakamura Y, Kanazawa Y, Makino H, Kawami N, Miyashita M, Uchida E Tags: J Nippon Med Sch Source Type: research