International consensus on a complications list after gastrectomy for cancer.
Gian Luca BaiocchiSimone GiacopuzziDaniele MarrelliDaniel ReimGuillaume PiessenPaulo Matos da CostaJohn V ReynoldsHans-Joachim MeyerPaolo MorgagniInes GockelLucio Lara SantosLone Susanne JensenThomas MurphyShaun R PrestonMikhail Ter-OvanesovUberto Fumagalli RomarioMaurizio DegiuliWojciech KielanStefan MönigPiotr KołodziejczykWojciech PolkowskiRichard HardwickManuel PeraJan JohanssonPaul M SchneiderWobbe O de SteurSuzanne S GisbertzHenk HartgrinkJoanna W van SandickNazario PortolaniArnulf H HölscherMaristella BotticiniFranco RovielloChristophe MarietteWilliam AllumGiovanni De ManzoniPublished in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2018)
The list of defined complications (soon to be validated in an international multicenter study) and the ongoing development of an electronic datasheet app to record them provide the basic infrastructure to reach the ultimate goals of standardized international data collection, establishment of benchmark results, and fostering of quality-improvement projects.