Decreased Morbidity of Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy Compared With Open Distal Gastrectomy for Stage I Gastric Cancer

Kim, Wook; Kim, Hyung‐Ho; Han, Sang‐Uk; Kim, Min-Chan; Jin Hyung, Woo; Wan Ryu, Seung; Seok Cho, Gyu; Young Kim, Chan; Yang, Han‐Kwang; Joong Park, Do; Young Song, Kyo; Il Lee, Sang; Yub Ryu, Seung; Lee, Joo-Ho; Lee, Hyuk‐Joon

doi:10.1097/sla.0000000000001346

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Decreased Morbidity of Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy Compared With Open Distal Gastrectomy for Stage I Gastric Cancer

Published in Annals of Surgery • Sep 10, 2015

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Wook Kim

Hyung‐Ho Kim

Sang‐Uk Han

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the safety of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) compared with open distal gastrectomy (ODG) in patients with clinical stage I gastric cancer in Korea. BACKGROUND: There is still a lack of large-scale, multicenter randomized trials regarding the safety of LADG. ME...

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Surgery

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