Selection of best candidates for multiorgan resection among patients with T4 gastric carcinoma.

Background And Objective: Indications for gastrectomy in T4 gastric carcinoma (GC) remain controversial. Our aim was to define prognostic factors to select those patients with best chance to benefit from multiorgan resection.

Materials And Methods: A cohort of patients with T4 GC treated in a 19-year period.

Experience of surgical morbidity after palliative surgery in patients with gastric carcinoma.

Background: Indications for palliative surgery in gastric carcinoma (GC) are controversial. Our aim was to describe the results of palliative surgery in GC in terms of operative morbidity and survival.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with GC, who were divided into three groups: resection with microscopic residual disease (R1), palliative resection with macroscopic residual disease (R2), and gastrojejunostomy.