A continuous muscle-sparing advantage of pylorus-preserving gastrectomy for older patients with cT1N0M0 gastric cancer in the middle third of the stomach.

Masayoshi TerayamaManabu OhashiRie MakuuchiMasaru HayamiSatoshi IdaKoshi KumagaiTakeshi SanoSouya Nunobe

Published in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2022)

LPPG has a great advantage in maintaining the postoperative skeletal muscle mass as well as the nutritional parameters of older patients. LPPG is expected to be an alternative to LDG in older patients.

Keyphrases

patients undergoing
computed tomography
image quality
skeletal muscle
dual energy
contrast enhanced
physical activity
robot assisted
middle aged
community dwelling
magnetic resonance imaging
positron emission tomography
minimally invasive