[Complications and mortality of extended gastrectomy for gastric cancer].

Background: Extended gastrectomy allows a complete tumor excision in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Aim: To compare the surgical results of extended (ER) and non-extended gastrectomy (NER) among patients with gastric cancer, and determine factors associated with complications and mortality.

Material And Methods: Review of medical records of patients with gastric cancer who underwent complete resection between 2002 and 2008 in an oncological hospital.

[Adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction: retrospective analysis of 39 patients].

Background: The long-term survival of adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction is poor and depends on the possibility of performing a complete surgical excision and the absence of lymph node involvement.

Aim: To report surgical results and survival of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction.

Material And Methods: Retrospective review of medical records of patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction, subjected to a curative surgical procedure between 2000 and 2008.