Min Chan Kim

..However, no reports on readmission rates for gastrectomy patients have been published, even if readmission greatly affects the patient's quality of life...

..The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy (LAG) with extraperigastric lymph node dissection for gastric cancer...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the short- and long- term outcomes of partial omentectomy (PO) as compared with complete omentectomy (CO)...

..Although more evidence from large-scale multicenter clinical trials is required, sentinel lymph node mapping might be also widely acceptable for GI cancer...

..This study aimed to determine the clinical benefits of robotic gastrectomy over open and laparoscopic gastrectomy for the treatment of gastric cancer...

..The aims of this study were to investigate intraoperative and postoperative complications in laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) with more than D1+beta lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer...

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..Adjuvant chemoradiation has become a standard of care in the USA. We evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of adjuvant chemoradiation versus chemotherapy in completely resected locally advanced gastric cancer...

..Obesity is known to be associated with postoperative morbidity in gastric cancer surgery, but its impact on laparoscopy assisted gastrectomy (LAG) for gastric cancer has rarely been evaluated...

..The aim of this study was to compare postoperative complications and survival rates of Billroth I and Billroth II reconstructions after LADG...

..However, there were few reports on long-term outcomes of laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy (LAG) for advanced gastric cancer (AGC). The aim of this study was to investigate long-term survival outcomes after LAG for AGC...

..9%. CONCLUSIONS. Curative treatment with successful en bloc resection can reduce the local recurrence of gastric neoplastic lesions after ESD. Clinical outcome may be excellent, although longer follow-up studies are warranted...

..We sought to evaluate the technical feasibility of LAG by determining the morbidity and mortality and identifying corresponding predictive factors...

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..Both ERCC1 and GSTP1 expression had a significant impact on OS (hazard ratio = 0.069, p = 0.021). TS expression was not related to DFS and OS...

..830-25.048, p=0.004). CONCLUSIONS. The only factor that correlated with an increased risk of bleeding with ESD was the presence of gastric malignancy. We found no factor that would, prospectively, be amenable to prevention of bleeding...

..The principal objective of this study was to determine the relationship between preoperative coagulation tests and the extent of tumor involvement in gastric cancer patients...

..This study aims to clarify the clinical value of serological marker or imaging tools, including conventional CT and PET-CT scans, in detecting recurrent gastric cancer after ESD in Korea...

..Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a more recent approach that is now commonly used for radical resection of gastric adenoma and adenocarcinoma...

..There are only a few reports of metachronous cancer after endoscopic resection. The aim of this study was to identify clinical factors associated with metachronous gastric cancer after endoscopic resection...

..The objective of this study is to assess recurrence and its timing, patterns, and risk factors following laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy from multicenter data...

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..We immunohistochemically assessed the HIF-1alpha, p53, and VEGF expression patterns in 114 specimens of gastric cancer. Additionally, we determined the levels of preoperative serum VEGF (sVEGF)...

..However, no report on the long-term safety and efficacy of this surgery for large sized gastric GISTs has been published to date...

..The principal objective of this study was to determine the preoperative serum levels of IL-6 and CRP in gastric carcinoma, and to correlate them with disease status and prognosis...

..To assess the prognostic significance of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and its target genes in gastric cancer...

..0% (19 of 20). CONCLUSIONS: SLN biopsy using radioisotope in patients with gastric cancer was a technically feasible procedure and a minimally invasive approach in the assessment of the nodal status in each patient...

..The primary endpoint is overall survival. The secondary endpoints are disease-free survival, morbidity, mortality, quality of life, inflammatory and immune responses, and cost-effectiveness (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00452751)...

..This study aimed to assess the learning curve of robotic gastrectomy for patients with cancer by analyzing the operation time...

..The aim of this study was to clarify the clinical significance of IL-6, VEGF, CRP before ESD...

..To analyze 3-year actual disease-free survival after laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy for gastric cancer on the assumption that 3-year disease-free survival may represent 5-year overall survival...

..To assess the usefulness of adenosine triphosphate-based chemotherapy response assay (ATP-CRA) results in advanced gastric cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy...

..To evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of postoperative chemoradiation using FP chemotherapy and oral capecitabine during radiation for advanced gastric cancer following curative resection...

..The aim of this study was to assess cellular and peritoneal immune responses after radical laparoscopic surgery in gastric cancer...

..To clarify optimal treatment guidelines for residual or local recurrence after endoscopic resection (ER)...

..001), but not to survival rates in multivariate analysis. In multivariate analysis, fascin expression was related to worse survival rates (HR = 1.56, P= 0.036), and can be an independent poor prognostic factor in gastric cancer...

..Her postoperative course was uneventful...

..We have reported here a case of a 43-year-old woman with Plummer-Vinson syndrome who developed stomach cancer and recovered after a radical total gastrectomy with D2 nodal dissection...

..The patient was treated with a lactulose retention enema and thiamine infusion, the 5-FU was halted and her symptoms then recovered after 7 days...

..CA19-9 may be especially useful as a marker for peritoneal recurrence of the gastric cancer, and CEA for recurrence to liver...

..However, its use in advanced gastric cancer has rarely been studied. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility and survival outcomes of LADG for pT2 gastric cancer...

..Primary small bowel volvulus in adults is a very rare malady; if the diagnosis is uncertain, then diagnostic laparoscopy is a valuable tool for making the definitive diagnosis and administering prompt treatment...

..Our studies, therefore, provide not only a molecular basis to understand biological processes of breast cancer but also useful resources to define the mechanism of beta-catenin expression in tumorigenesis of breast cancer...

..Anastomotic leakage, bleeding, and stricture are major complications after gastrectomy. Of these complications, postoperative anastomotic bleeding is relatively rare, but lethal if not treated immediately...

..The aim of this study is to determine patients' acceptance of NOTES in Korea and to compare their views about laparoscopic surgery and NOTES for benign and malignant diseases...

..BORIS-MS2 alleles were transmitted through meiosis following Mendelian inheritance, which suggests that this polymorphic minisatellite could be a useful marker for paternity mapping and DNA fingerprinting...

..To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of such an occurrence...

..We illustrated and compared the hand-sutured method to the circular stapling method, for Billroth-II, in patients who underwent laparoscopy assisted distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer...

..We retrospectively reviewed the long-term oncologic outcomes over 12 years to clarify the feasibility of LAG for gastric cancer...

..Additionally, GLUT1 might potentially be useful as a means of distinguishing CC from HCC...

..Herein, we have evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of a fortnightly modified FOLFOX-4 (m-FOLFOX) regimen...

..Our aim was to explore the different gene expression patterns in early and advanced gastric cancer...

..The purpose of this study is to analyze the risk factors associated with delayed gastric emptying after radical subtotal gastrectomy with Billroth I anastomosis using a stapler for early gastric cancer...

..Recently, laparoscopic splenectomy has become the more standard procedure for the spleen for diagnosis and treatment. Here, we report a rare case of SANT diagnosed following laparoscopic splenectomy...

..In this study, we identified eight novel minisatellites from the entire MUC2 region and investigated how allelic variation in these minisatellites may affect susceptibility to gastrointestinal cancer...

..These data support the theory that CDCA derivatives-induced apoptosis of SNU-1 gastric cancer cell lines is mediated by mitochondria and caspase, and, at least in part, by Nur77...

..CONCLUSIONS: SLN biopsy using a radioisotope in patients with gastric cancer is a technically feasible and accurate technique, and it is a minimally invasive approach in the assessment of patient nodal status...

..CONCLUSIONS: This technique is a simple and safe procedure for intraoperative colon decompression during radical gastrectomy...

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..019). CONCLUSIONS: For LADG in patients with early gastric cancer, obesity may affect the operation time, and men with high BMI require a longer operation time than do women with normal or high BMI...

..CONCLUSION: Based on operative time analysis, this study show that experience of 50 cases of LADG with systemic lymphadenectomy for early gastric cancer is required to achieve optimum proficiency...

..Its oncologic validity awaits larger and prospective multicenter trials...

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