Masters of Gastrointestinal Surgery

A case of laparoscopy-assisted radical distal gastrectomy

Hongjiang Song, Yuzhe Wei, Xuefeng Yu, Yingwei Xue

Abstract

The past decades have witnessed the rapid development of laparoscopy in radical treatment of gastric cancer since its first application in distal gastrectomy in 1992. Currently, laparoscopy-assisted radical distal gastrectomy is one of the standard operations for early gastric cancer in Japan.