Laparoscopic gastrectomy for treatment of advanced gastric cancer: preliminary experience on 38 cases

• Published in: Minerva chirurgica Vol. 64; no. 5; p. 445
• Main Authors: Allieta, R, Nardi, Jr, M, Brachet-Contul, R, Millo, P, Fabozzi, M, Cornaglia, S, Parini, U
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Italy 01.10.2009
• Subjects: Aged; Feasibility Studies; Female; Gastrectomy - methods; Humans; Laparoscopy; Male; Neoplasm Staging; Retrospective Studies; Stomach Neoplasms - pathology; Stomach Neoplasms - surgery

In the last 20 years the laparoscopic surgery rapidly and successfully diffused for the treatment of benign diseases and recently also for the treatment of malignancy; newerteless, the laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer is still controversial, in relation to extreme difficulty of a radical...