Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy
(LADG) in patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) to determine whether LADG is an …

Since 1991, laparoscopic surgery has been adopted for the treatment of gastric cancer, and
it has been performed worldwide, especially in Japan and Korea. We reviewed the English …

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety of this trial with respect to
morbidity and mortality. Summary Background Data: Laparoscopic-assisted distal …

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare technical feasibility and both early and 5-
year clinical outcomes of laparoscopic-assisted and open radical subtotal gastrectomy for …

Objective: To perform a meta-analysis of high-quality published trials, randomized and
observational, comparing laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (LDG) and open distal …

Background: Laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer is technically feasible, but it is not
widely accepted because it has not been evaluated from the standpoint of oncologic …

Background Laparoscopy-assisted surgery with extraperigastric lymph node dissection for
gastric cancers has been described, but the clinical benefits of these surgeries still are …

Background Laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer has become common due to
improvement of the surgical techniques and devices for laparoscopic surgery. Although …

Background Laparoscopy‐assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) is generally considered
superior to open distal gastrectomy (ODG) with regard to postoperative quality‐of‐life …

AIM: To elucidate the current status of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) with
regard to its short-term outcomes by comparing it with conventional open distal gastrectomy …