Postoperative Complications of Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy versus Open Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer in a Meta-Analysis of High-Quality Case-Controlled Studies

Postoperative Complications of Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy versus Open Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer in a Meta-Analysis of High-Quality Case-Controlled Studies

Background. Some meta-analyses of case-controlled studies (CCSs) have shown that laparoscopic or laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy (LTG) had some short-term advantages over open total gastrectomy (OTG). However, postoperative complications differed somewhat among the meta-analyses, and some CCS...

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Main Authors: Mikito Inokuchi, Sho Otsuki, Norihito Ogawa, Toshiro Tanioka, Keisuke Okuno, Kentaro Gokita, Tatsuyuki Kawano, Kazuyuki Kojima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2617903

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