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01-02-2014 | Gastrointestinal Oncology
Is Pylorus-preserving Gastrectomy Universally Applicable to Early Gastric Cancer of the Mid Stomach?
Authors:
Hiroya Takeuchi, MD, PhD, FACS, Yuko Kitagawa, MD, PhD, FACS
Published in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Issue 2/2014
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Excerpt
Recent advances in endoscopic diagnosis have allowed gastric cancer to be diagnosed early, often in asymptomatic patients.
1 Currently, endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection are accepted as the least invasive procedures when managing early gastric cancer (cT1).
1 An important intermediate option before open gastrectomy is laparoscopic gastrectomy.
2 …