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Laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer was developed in Japan. Laparoscopic wedge resection of the stomach was developed in 1992, intragastric mucosal resection in 1993, and LADG in 1991. Each has become an important operation [1–3]. Because lymph node dissection is not performed during the first two procedures, these procedures apply only to lesions that display no danger of lymph node metastasis. Therefore, mucosal cancer not treatable by endoscopic submucosal dissection because of the location and size of the lesion can be treated by LADG. Lymph node dissection during LADG was first attempted for treatment of early gastric cancer, which requires preventive lymph node dissection.
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Kitano, S. (2012). Trends in Laparoscopic Gastrectomy in Japan. In: Kitano, S., Yang, HK. (eds) Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Cancer. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54003-8_1
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