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ASO Author Reflections offer a brief invited commentary on the article, “Short-Term Outcomes of Laparoscopic and Open Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Analysis”. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07688-y
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Sakamoto, T., Fujiogi, M., Matsui, H. et al. ASO Author Reflections: Anastomotic Complications are More Prevalent in Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy than in Open Total Gastrectomy. Ann Surg Oncol 27, 527–528 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-019-07990-9
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