A randomized controlled trial comparing open vs laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for the treatment of early gastric cancer: an interim report.

By S. Kitano, Norio Shiraishi, K. Fujii, K. Yasuda, M. Inomata, Y. Adachi. Surgery, 2002

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Subfields: Gastroenterology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery

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In Gastroenterology

1. Kenichi Sugihara
2. Norio Shiraishi
3. N. Tanigawa
4. I. Uyama
5. S. Kitano

In Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

1. Kenichi Sugihara
2. Norio Shiraishi
3. N. Tanigawa
4. I. Uyama
5. S. Kitano

Citations in the corpus

• A Multicenter Study on Oncologic Outcome of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Early Cancer in Japan (2007, background): “Both the mortality rate and the morbidity rate associated with LAG were shown to be as low as those of conventional open gastrectomy,14 and the 5-year survival rate of patients who underwent LAG for EGC was as good as that of patients who underwent conventional open surgery for EGC.15,16 Since LADG ”