... to in the content or advertisements. Gastric carcinoma Laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy Prognostic nutritional index Anastomotic leakage Postoperative complication Radical gastrectomy with regional lymph node dissection has been the mainstay of the curative treatment for gastric cancer [ 1...

...P. Piso; T. Bellin; H. Aselmann; H. Bektas; H.J. Schlitt; J. Klempnauer Background/Aims: Although the incidence of primary gastric carcinoma is decreasing, the majority of patients in Western countries are still diagnosed with advanced tumor stages. In many cases surgical therapy can be performed...

... Pouch Reconstruction after Total Gastrectomy Key Words Gastric carcinoma Total gastrectomy Pouch reconstruction Abstract The paper provides a detailed description o f the surgical technique employed on 333 patients with total gastrectomy and pouch reconstruction. It further gives a detailed discussion o...

...Mauri Iivonen; Martti Matikainen; Isto Nordback Forty-nine gastric carcinoma patients were randomized after total gastrectomy to the Hunt-Lawrence pouch reconstruction (pouch group, 26 patients) or to the Roux-en-Y reconstruction without pouch (control group, 23 patients). Mortality, morbidity...

... of portal vein branches and of bile ducts was seen in the liver tumor only. This appears to be the first report of a concurrent hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatoid gastric cancer in the same patient. Hepatoid adenocarcinoma Hepatocellular carcinoma Gastric carcinoma α-Fetoprotein © 1997 S...

...Rainer Kirchner For gastric carcinomas the surgical strategy is mainly based on tumor site, tumor stage and the Lauren classification. Total gastrectomy and distal resection are adequate procedures, if they are combined with lymphadenectomy of compartments I and II. The necessity for splenectomy...

...Hans-Joachim Meyer; Joachim Jaehne Despite encouraging results from Japan, the role of systematic lymphadenectomy in the surgical treatment of gastric carcinoma remains controversial in the Western hemisphere. We have performed systematic lymphadenectomy since 1978. In a prospective study of 397...

...C.P. Armstrong; J.M. Dixon; T.V. Taylor Total pepsin activity and gastric acid secretion have been estimated in the resting basal and maximally stimulated gastric juice in groups of normal controls, patients with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and gastric carcinoma. Stimulated pepsin and acid...

...Yoichi Nagayama; Masayuki Tominaga; Kazuo Honda; Koichi Tanaka; Yoshio Yamaoka; Kazue Ozawa; Yasuaki Nakashima; Juichi Ueki Gastric carcinoma with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a very rare association. Surgical treatment has been uniformly palliative in the 4 reported cases. We report...

...J. Jaehne; H.-J. Meyer; B. Soudah; H. Maschek; R. Pichlmayr Peritoneal lavage was performed in 66 patients with gastric carcinoma to assess the amount of free tumor cells. 12/66 patients (18 %) proved to have free cancer cells. The intestinal type of carcinoma showed more frequently free tumor...

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... (group 2 vs. group 3); ** p < 0.001 (group 2 vs. group 1). Fig. 1. The changes in the interleukin-6 level of groups 1 (n = 10), 2 (n = 10) and 3 (n = 10) after surgical treatment. * p = 0.027 (group 2 vs. group 3); ** p < 0.001 (group 2 vs. group 1). Gastric carcinoma Gastrectomy...

... was not significant (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Our results indicate that COX-2 may play a role in the development of gastric cancer and its overexpression is associated with lymphatic metastasis, tumor invasion and differentiation of gastric carcinoma. 14 02 2002 9 09 2002 4 4 2003 © 2003 S...

... and uncomplicated insertion of a self-expanding metallic stent into an esophagojejunal anastomotic stricture which developed 1 month after total gastrectomy and stapled esophagojejunal anastomosis in a patient with gastric carcinoma. This is the 3rd report in the literature. 16 7 2001 © 2001 S. Karger...

...J. Pinto-de-Sousa; Leonor David; Mário Seixas; Amadeu Pimenta Background/Aims: The putative influence of tumor location on the biologic behavior of gastric carcinomas remains controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate if carcinomas arising in the three types of gastric mucosa (cardia...

...Shinsuke Takeno; Tsuyoshi Noguchi; Tetsuro Sato; Yuzo Uchida; Shigeo Yokoyama We report a case of gastric carcinoma after gastrojejunostomy (GJ-stomy) without gastrectomy. Multiple gastric carcinomas were discovered 21 years after GJ-stomy without gastrectomy which had been performed for treatment...

...Kazuhide Kumagai Over the past 11 years, I have experienced a few patients with intractable ascites after extended radical surgery for gastric carcinomas, which accounted for 1.0% (4 of 394) of all gastric carcinomas resected in our institute. These 4 patients underwent total or subtotal...