Laparoscopic Versus Open Gastrectomy for Cancer: A Western Center Cohort Study

Laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) for cancer has been introduced in institutions worldwide in an effort to minimize surgical trauma, while aiming to provide comparable oncological outcomes to conventional open gastrectomy (OG). The aim of this study was to present our results during the period of implementation of the laparoscopic technique.

Source: Journal of Surgical Research - October 30, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Andrianos Tsekrekos, Fredrik Klevebro, Masaru Hayami, Satoshi Kamiya, Mats Lindblad, Magnus Nilsson, Lars Lundell, Ioannis Rouvelas Source Type: research