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01-05-2005 | Letter to the editor

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Authors: S. Kitano, N. Shiraishi

Published in: Surgical Endoscopy | Issue 5/2005

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We thank Dr. Huscher and colleagues for the insightful response to our review and for the clinical outcome data for the 56 patients with advanced gastric cancer treated successfully by laparoscopic total or subtotal gastrectomy with D1 and D2 lymph node dissection. The outcome is very interesting and informative for laparoscopic surgeons. …

Goh, PM, et al. 2001Early experience with laparoscopic radical gastrectomy of advanced gastric cancerSurg Laparosc Endosc PercutanTech118387

Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery2002National survey on endoscopic surgery in Japan [in Japanese]J Jpn Soc Endosc Surg7479567

Kitano, S, et al. 2002A randomized controlled trial comparing open versus laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for the treatment of early gastric cancer: an interim reportSurgery131S306311PubMed

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Authors: S. Kitano
N. Shiraishi
Publication date: 01-05-2005
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Surgical Endoscopy / Issue 5/2005
Print ISSN: 0930-2794
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-004-9111-7

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