Role of D2 gastrectomy in gastric cancer with clinical para-aortic lymph node metastasis.

CONCLUSION: For gastric cancer patients with radiologically suspicious PALM that responds well to chemotherapy, D2 gastrectomy could be a safe and effective treatment and should be adopted in a MDT approach for gastric cancer with clinical PALM.
PMID: 31148905 [PubMed - in process]

Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - May 20, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Zheng XH, Zhang W, Yang L, Du CX, Li N, Xing GS, Tian YT, Xie YB Tags: World J Gastroenterol Source Type: research