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01-01-2012
Complications of Bursectomy after Radical Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer
Authors:
Cuneyt Kayaalp, Turgut Piskin, Aydemir Olmez
Published in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
We were pleased to read the article by Imamura et al. [
1] titled with “Influence of Bursectomy on Operative Morbidity and Mortality after Radical Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial”. In our center, we routinely perform bursectomy for radical gastrectomy for gastric cancers, and we agree that increased surgical experience can decrease the operative morbidity and mortality. However, we have some questions and comments about this article. …