Limited Clinical Significance of Splenectomy and Splenic Hilar Lymph Node Dissection for Type 4 Gastric Cancer.

Aina Kunitomo Kazunari MisawaYuichi ItoSeiji ItoEiji HigakiSeiji NatsumeTakashi KinoshitaTetsuya AbeKoji KomoriYasuhiro Shimizu

Published in: Journal of gastric cancer (2021)

The clinical significance of splenectomy in the dissection of #10 for type 4 GC is limited and splenectomy for splenic hilar dissection alone should be omitted.