Gastric & Breast Cancer e-journal
DOI: 10.2122/gbc.2009.0103
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Randomized Trial Evidence for Laparoscopic Gastrectomy: Time to Wider Use
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Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Athens , School of Medicine , Athens , Greece
Email: theodlia@otenet.gr
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Since there is no abstract available we provide the first paragraph
Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) as compared to open distal gastrectomy (ODG) in patients with early gastric cancer may improve quality of life (QOL). Yet however, there is no data from RCT to support the hypothesis of better QOL with LADG rather than ODG. Most recently he results of a randomized controlled trial for the first time have been published. Which are the clinical implications of this study?
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