abstract background: end-to-side esophagojejunostomy has almost always been associated with some degree of dysphagia. to overcome this complication we decided to perform an end-to-end anastomosis and compare it with end-to-side roux-en-y esophagojejunostomy. methods: in this prospective study, between 1998 and 2005, 71 patients with a diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma underwent total gastrect...

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...

Minimally invasive gastrectomy has become the standard of care in many centers in Asia but remains unpopular in Europe. The aim of this article is to present the technique of laparoscopic robot-assisted total gastrectomy. The presented case involved a 66-year-old female patient with an advanced gastric cancer on the lesser curvature of the stomach. The laparoscopic part of the procedure involve...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to make serial comparisons of the quality of life (QoL) between patients who underwent total gastrectomy and those who underwent distal subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer and to identify the affected scales with consistency. MATERIALS AND METHODS QoL data of 275 patients who were admitted for surgery between September 2008 and June 2011 and who underwe...