Totally laparoscopic versus open gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer: a matched retrospective cohort study.

CONCLUSION: Laparoscopic gastrectomy offers a safe and effective therapeutic option and is superior in terms of operative morbidity and potentially superior in terms of oncological outcomes compared with open surgery for advanced, surgically resectable gastric cancer, even in a small regional surgical department. PMID: 30655459 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30655459?dopt=Abstract

Source: Hong Kong Med J - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Chan BY, Yau KK, Chan CK Tags: Hong Kong Med J Source Type: research