Short-Term Outcomes of Laparoscopic and Open Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

Takashi SakamotoMichimasa FujiogiHiroki MatsuiKiyohide FushimiHideo Yasunaga

Published in: Annals of surgical oncology (2019)

Laparoscopic total gastrectomy has some advantages over open surgery for gastric cancer in terms of time to first oral intake and postoperative length of stay, but the incidence of anastomotic leakage was higher than that of open total gastrectomy.

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