Oncological Adequacy of Laparoscopic Surgery for Bulky Gastric Cancer: Results of a Western Single-Center Series.
Edoardo Maria MuttilloAlice La FrancaSilvia StefanelliAlessandro CoppolaFrancesco Saverio Li CausiRachele Anna GiannellaElena PinoGiorgio CastagnolaAndrea ScarinciGenoveffa BalducciPaolo MercantiniPublished in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Laparoscopic surgery is still a subject of debate in locally advanced bulky gastric cancer. Limited data are available concerning Western patients. This study showed superiority in terms of the quality of lymphadenectomy and non-inferiority in terms of radical resection margins.
Keyphrases
- laparoscopic surgery
- locally advanced
- end stage renal disease
- rectal cancer
- ejection fraction
- south africa
- chronic kidney disease
- squamous cell carcinoma
- newly diagnosed
- robot assisted
- early stage
- lymph node
- prognostic factors
- electronic health record
- clinical trial
- prostate cancer
- minimally invasive
- patient reported
- phase ii study