For many years, open gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy was the gold standard treatment for gastric cancer. In recent years, however, laparoscopic assisted total gastrectomy with associated D2 lymphadenectomy has gained in popularity. It has a similar oncological outcome to open resection, but has all of the added advantages of a laparoscopic procedure, such as early mobilisation, less postoperat...

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has been a recently developed technique for treating morbid obesity. Gagner and Patterson performed the first laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy as part of a duodenal switch procedure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1999. Since then many surgeons and institutions have adopted this technique. One of the most dreaded complications of sleeve gastrectomy is a lea...

burkitt lymphoma of stomach is among the most rapidly growing gastric cancersassociated with several gasterointestinal  symptoms  including  hematemesis,  anorexia,  vomiting  and  etc. gastric perforation  in patients with burkitt lymphoma of stomach is a very rare condition especially after chemotherapy. we herein present a 21-year old man who was kwon case of gastric burkitt lymphoma who had...

absract gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death. most cases are sporadic and only 10% of patients, show familial clustering. among these patients, 1 to 3 % have hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (hdgc), which is autosomal-dominant and present in younger ages. mutations in ecadherin gene cdh1 has been identified in 30 to 50% of patients. becau...

Gastric cancer is worldwide one of the most common causes of cancer death. Total gastrectomy is the gold standard treatment for gastric carcinomas originating in the gastric body or fundus. There have been important decrease in surgical morbidity and mortality after total gastrectomies. However, some major complications are related to the surgical technique. Esophagojejunostomy leaks are seriou...

Single-incision laparoscopic total gastrectomy for gastric cancer has recently been reported by Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. However, this is not a popular procedure primarily because of the technical difficulties involved in achieving consistent intracorporeal esophagojejunostomy. At Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, we recently introduced a simple, easy-to-use, low-pr...

Gastric Cancer is one of the major causes of cancer specific deaths worldwide and incidence of Proximal Gastric Cancer is increasing with time. Laparoscopic gastrectomy has increased in popularity in recent years due to lesser complications and higher functional preservation. In this study we have compared the peri-operative findings of 72 patients with proximal gastric cancers who underwent tu...

Among the existing weight-loss procedures, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has gained increasing popularity in the past decade, due to its remarkable results concerning EWL and resolution of comorbidities. Also because it seems fast and easy and doesn’t have the burden of often visits and adjustments as it used to be with the cases of gastric banding. However, most of major concerns for a team ...

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has been described as the first step of a two-step laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) or biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD-DS) in extremely obese patients. It has also been used as an independent bariatric procedure. Recently a banded sleeve gastrectomy using human dermis was published. Gastric sleeve dilatation is one of the un...

A randomized controlled trial has started in both Japan and Korea to evaluate the role of gastrectomy in the management of incurable advanced gastric cancer (AGC). Patients with AGC diagnosed as having a single non-curable factor are randomized to gastrectomy plus chemotherapy or chemotherapy alone. Surgeons at 33 specialized centers in Japan and at 15 high-volume hospitals in Korea will recrui...