Impact of Abdominal Shape on Short-Term Surgical Outcome of Laparoscopy-Assisted Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer.

Background: Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has been widely accepted for the treatment for gastric cancer. The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of abdominal shape parameters on gastric antrum cancer patients' short-term surgical outcomes of LADG with D2 lymph node dissection in both genders, including the number of lymph nodes retrieved and surgical safety index.

Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of 177 gastric antrum cancer patients, who underwent LADG between April 2009 and January 2016.

Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer with situs inversus totalis: A case report.

Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare anomaly in which the abdominal and thoracic cavity structures are located opposite to their usual positions. Occasionally, patients with this condition are diagnosed with malignant tumors. We report a case of a 60-year-old woman with gastric cancer and SIT.

Prognostic significance of nuclear hepatoma-derived growth factor expression in gallbladder cancer.

Aim: To assess the expression of nuclear hepatoma-derived growth factor (HDGF) in benign and malignant gallbladder lesions and to determine its clinicopathological significance.

Methods: We studied 40 patients with gallbladder cancer (GBC) and a control group of 40 patients with cholelithiasis. All diagnoses of GBC and cholelithiasis were confirmed by histopathological examination after surgery.

[A comparative study of laparoscopic-assisted and open distal gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer].

Objective: To evaluate the safety, feasibility and the long-term outcomes of laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy (LAG) for advanced gastric cancer (AGC).

Methods: The clinical and follow-up data of 46 cases after LAG from June 2008 to December 2009 were analyzed, and compared with 85 cases after conventional open gastrectomy (OG) for advanced gastric cancer at the same period at our hospital. The surgical safety, postoperative recovery, complications, radical degree, survival rate were compared.

[Expression of RhoC protein in human primary hepatocellular carcinoma and its clinical significance].

Objective: To detect the expression of RhoC protein in human primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and pericancerous liver (PCL) tissues and its relation to HCC prognosis.

Methods: Immunohistochemical method was used to detect the expression of RhoC protein in HCC, PCL of 43 patients. Thirty-six patients were followed up after they received radical resection.