Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Laparoscopic D2 Gastrectomy: Time for a Randomized Trial

  • Published:
World Journal of Surgery Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Ryu KW, Kim YW, Lee JH et al (2008) Surgical complications and the risk factors of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy in early gastric cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 15(6):1625–1631

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Liakakos T, Roukos D (2008) Laparoscopic gastrectomy: advances enable wide clinical application. Surg Endosc 22(6):1553–1555

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Kawamura H, Homma S, Yokota R et al (2008) Inspection of safety and accuracy of D2 lymph node dissection in laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy. World J Surg 32(11):66–70

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Liakakos T, Roukos DH (2008) More controversy than ever—challenges and promises towards personalized treatment of gastric cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 15(4):956–960

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Kappas AM, Roukos DH (2002) Quality of surgery determinant for the outcome of patient with gastric cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 9(9):828–830

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Briasoulis E, Fatouros M, Roukos DH (2007) Level I evidence in support of perioperative chemotherapy for operable gastric cancer: sufficient for wide clinical use? Ann Surg Oncol 14:2691–2695

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Briasoulis E, Liakakos T, Dova L et al (2006) Selecting a specific pre- or postoperative adjuvant therapy for individual patients with operable gastric cancer. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 6:931–939

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Fatouros M, Roukos DH, Arampatzis I et al (2005) Factors increasing local recurrence in breast-conserving surgery. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 5(4):737–745

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Roukos DH (2008) Linking contralateral breast cancer with genetics. Radiother Oncol 86:139–141

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Fatouros M, Baltoyiannis G, Roukos DH (2008) The predominant role of surgery in the prevention and new trends in the surgical treatment of women with BRCA1/2 mutations. Ann Surg Oncol 15(1):21–33

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Roukos DH (2008) Innovative genomic-based model for personalized treatment of gastric cancer: integrating current standards and new technologies. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 8(1):29–39

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Roukos DH (2008) Genetics and genome-wide association studies: surgery-guided algorithm and promise for future breast cancer personalized surgery. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 8(5):587–597

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Roukos DH, Lykoudis E, Liakakos T (2008) Genomics and challenges toward personalized breast cancer local control. J Clin Oncol 26(26):4360–4361

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Roukos DH (2008) HER2 and response to paclitaxel in node-positive breast cancer. N Engl J Med 358:197 (author reply 198)

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Roukos DH (2008) Breast-cancer stromal cells with TP53 mutations. N Engl J Med 358(15):1636 (author reply 1636)

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Roukos DH (2009) Assessing both genetic variation (SNPs/ CNVs) and gene-environment interactions may lead to personalized gastric cancer prevention. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 9(1):1–6

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 3rd Surgical Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    T. Liakakos, P. Patapis, A. Charalambopoulos & A. Macheras

Authors
  1. T. Liakakos
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. P. Patapis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. Charalambopoulos
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. A. Macheras
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to T. Liakakos.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Liakakos, T., Patapis, P., Charalambopoulos, A. et al. Laparoscopic D2 Gastrectomy: Time for a Randomized Trial. World J Surg 33, 1542–1543 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-009-9948-y

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-009-9948-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation