Surgical considerations and outcomes of minimally invasive approaches for gastric cancer resection.

ABSTRACT: Despite high mortality rates from gastric cancer, surgical management remains critical for curative potential. Optimal outcomes of gastric cancer resection depend on a multitude of variables, including the extent of resection, scope of lymphadenectomy, method of reconstruction, and potential for a minimally invasive approach. Laparoscopic gastrectomy, compared with open gastrectomy, has been analyzed in numerous randomized control trials. Generally, those trials demonstrated statistically similar postoperative complication rates, mortality, and oncologic outcomes between the two approaches. Although laparoscopic gastrectomy requires longer operative times, significant improvements in estimated blood loss, postoperative length of stay, and return of bowel function have been noted in patient

SUBMITTER: Ong CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9828344 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature