Gastric Cancer

Research results from Seoul National University, Department of Surgery update understanding of gastric cancer

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, September 5th, 2010

A report, 'Reverse double-stapling end-to-end esophagogastrostomy in proximal gastrectomy,' is newly published data in Digestive Surgery. According to recent research from Seoul, Korea, "Proximal gastrectomy is a surgical option for proximally located early gastric cancer. We present a new double-stapling method for proximal gastrectomy and esophagogastrostomy."

"We examined the safety of proximal gastrectomy by analyzing the lymph node metastasis rate in 53 patients who underwent total gastrectomy due to proximally located early gastric cancer from January 2004 to December 2008. We applied the double-stapling method used in distal gastrectomy reversely to...

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