Pouch creation improved long-term functional and nutritional outcomes after total removal of the stomach with no increase in perioperative morbidity, researchers in Singapore reported. Their ...

Gastrectomy is a type of major surgery to remove part or all of the stomach. Surgeons most commonly perform the procedure to treat stomach cancer. The amount or part of the stomach surgeons remove ...

STUDIES on patients who have survived total gastrectomy for three years or more are few, and contradictory results are reported. For this reason and since total gastrectomy is being practiced with ...

Gastrectomy is a surgical procedure where a part of or the complete stomach is surgically removed. It may be done as an open surgical procedure or through laparoscopy. While living without a stomach ...

THE investigations of Castle and co-workers 1–6 over the past quarter century strongly support the thesis that pernicious anemia is the result of a gastric defect manifested by an inadequate ...

Clinicopathologic differences and survival of Hispanics (H) versus Non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) with gastric cancer (GC) at a Majority Minority Cancer Center in South Texas. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

A gastrectomy is a surgical procedure carried out to remove all or part of the stomach. It may be used to treat stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, severe or morbid obesity, peptic ulcers or benign ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Open gastrectomy has long been the criterion standard worldwide. However, application of laparoscopic ...

The stomach is a muscular J-shaped sac-like structure, mainly acts as reservoir for the food, located in the upper and left part of abdomen and a crucial part of the digestive organ of ...