Results The most frequent complications were anastomotic leakage (3.0%) and wound
infection (2.8%) followed by the development of pancreatic fistulae (2.2%) and intra-abdominal …

Results There were no significant differences in surgical duration, blood loss, blood
chemistry, food intake, and body weight loss. Regarding abdominal symptoms, early dumping …

Results Patients undergoing limited proximal gastrectomy with esophagogastrostomy
reconstruction had shorter operation times and less blood loss than those for patients undergoing …

Enteral nutrition has been reported to be safe and effective in malnourished patients undergoing
upper gastrointestinal surgery. In this study, we devised night home enteral nutrition (N-…

Background/Aim: To evaluate the safety of colorectomy in elderly colorectal cancer patients
with high American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) scores compared to those with low …

Aims No ideal and generally accepted method of reconstruction for laparoscopic proximal
gastrectomy (LPG) has been established because of a high incidence of postoperative reflux …

Background. Because bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) is incorporated into DNA synthesizing (S‐phase)
cells, the blood supply of liver tumors can be traced by injecting BrdU into either the …

Background Although single-port mediastinoscopic radical esophagectomy is ultimate
minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer without thoracotomy or the thoracoscopic …

Background/aims Little is known about the clinicopathological features of intermediate-stage
T2 gastric cancer, defined as tumors invading the muscularis propria or subserosa. …

Results Lymph node metastasis was found in 189 of the 582 patients (32.5%). Both nodal
staging systems were found to be significant prognostic factors by multivariate analysis. A …