Young Woo Kim

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..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) after laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) compared with open distal gastrectomy (ODG) in patients with early gastric cancer...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of hand-assisted distal gastrectomy (HALDG) for gastric cancer...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the technical feasibility and safety of LATG as compared with laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) in gastric cancer...

..This study was designed to identify the characteristics of patients with early gastric cancers that have skip metastases...

..This study was conducted to explore the characteristics of the patients who were diagnosed preoperatively with early gastric cancer but pathologically confirmed T2 or greater disease...

..The current study aimed to determine whether a robot-assisted total gastrectomy (RATG) has a real benefit over LATG in terms of surgical and oncologic outcomes...

..Self-expandable metallic stents (SEMSs) provide effective palliation of malignant pyloric obstruction in patients with inoperable gastric cancer...

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..This study was performed to identify the factors associated with detection failure and SNB false-negativity in gastric cancer...

..This study was conducted to determine whether laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) with complete D2 lymph node dissection for gastric cancer is a safe and effective surgical option...

..Sentinel basin (SB) dissection has been suggested as alternative to SN biopsy to improve sensitivity. The aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of laparoscopic SB dissection...

..This study was performed to identify the surgical complications and their associated risk factors of LADG in early gastric cancer...

..pylori eradication has not been adequately assessed in the gastric remnant. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of postoperative versus preoperative H. pylori eradication therapy...

..While clinicians routinely follow up gastric cancer patients after curative resection to detect recurrence, the effectiveness of regular follow-up has not been proven, and no consensus has been reached regarding follow-up programs...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of SEMSs in patients with recurrent gastric cancer after radical gastrectomy...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate our institutional guidelines for LADG, limiting the indications for this modality to only clinical stage T1N0 or T1N1 gastric cancer...

..To compare chemotherapy alone with chemoradiation therapy in stage III-IV(M0) gastric cancer treated with R0 gastrectomy and D2 lymph node dissection...

..A tumor thrombus in the portal vein originating from gastric cancer is a rare condition. Little is known about the development of portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) and its effect on the survival of gastric cancer patients...

..The aim of the study was to characterize recurrence patterns and identify predictors of recurrence after curative resection...

..We compared the feasibility and safety of ESD for metachronous tumor found in the remnant stomach after distal gastrectomy with ESD for tumor in the upper third of the intact stomach...

..Helicobacter pylori infection is a risk factor for gastric cancer. We evaluated whether H. pylori infection and premalignant histological changes are more prevalent in siblings of young gastric cancer patients...

..There is a prevailing belief that young patients with gastric adenocarcinomas have a more aggressive disease...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate effective and safe balloon diameter for benign stricture after total gastrectomy...

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..There is a prevailing belief that both obesity and abdominal shape influence abdominal accessibility, and thus affect short-term surgical outcomes of gastric cancer surgery...

..Although gastric cancer with isolated para-aortic lymph node (PAN) involvement is considered an advanced disease, the clinical characteristics of it have not been comprehensively elucidated...

..In the era of pre- or perioperative therapy for gastric cancer, clinical staging before treatment appears to be increasingly important for prognosis, yet there are no data on the subject for resectable gastric cancer patients...

..Multiple gastric cancers (MGCs) were found in 4-10% of gastric cancer patients. The aim of this study was to identify pretreatment risk factors associated with MGC and missed lesions...

..023 and 0.012, respectively). SOX 18 expression might be a prognostic tumor marker and a potential therapeutic target in gastric cancer...

..To determine whether an Internet-based tailored education program is effective for disease-free cancer survivors with cancer-related fatigue (CRF)...

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..This meta-analysis was performed to determine the sensitivity of SNB in gastric cancer and to identify factors that improve its sensitivity...

..Endoscopic resection (ER) is an effective treatment for early gastric cancer (EGC) without lymph node metastasis. However, after ER additional surgery may be needed to manage the risks presented by residual cancer or lymph node metastasis...

..Our results demonstrate that LQ has an efficacy to activate Nrf2, which contributes to inhibiting the activity of LXRα that leads to SREBP-1c induction and hepatic steatosis...

..We evaluated the association between the interval between upper gastrointestinal endoscopies and the gastric cancer stage at diagnosis in patients from a region of high prevalence...

..Our objective was to test the efficacy of an educational material on the knowledge, attitudes, and screening practices for SPC among cancer survivors...

..Family history of gastric cancer is a major risk factor for the disease. In this study, we investigated the prognoses of patients with gastric cancer with a family history...

..The goal of this study was to examine the knowledge, attitude, and practice on second cancer screening among cancer survivors...

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..The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between preoperative serum angiopoietin-2, a lymphangiogenic growth factor, and lymph node metastasis in patients with early gastric cancer...

..However, no report has been issued on the control of duodenal stump leakage after Billroth II gastrectomy by endoscopic clipping. The authors describe successful endoscopic clipping in a case of duodenal stump leakage...

..The Lauren classification of gastric cancer in patients with equivocal CT findings of para-aortic lymph node metastasis would be helpful when deciding on clinical stage and treatment plans in these patients...

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..The aim of the present study was to assess the association between the pre-operative plasma fibrinogen level and the adjacent organ involvement in advanced gastric cancer...

..Standard distal subtotal gastrectomy was performed without reduction. Her postoperative course was uneventful...

..05). These findings indicate that MT carcinoma is distinct from IT and DT carcinomas in its enhanced CpG island hypermethylation status and implicate the enhanced promoter CpG island hypermethylation in the histogenesis of MT carcinoma...

..The aim of this study was to determine whether reconstruction methods after the distal subtotal gastrectomy influenced the degree of food residue and bile reflux...

..We aimed to identify clinical experiences associated with outcomes of care among stomach cancer patients...

..The aim of the study is to evaluate histologic risk factors for GC among patients with a DU...

..The aim of this study was to investigate whether repeated esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) screening is an effective method for detecting EGC that can be treated by endoscopic resection...

..pylori. The aim of this study was to determine appropriate biopsy site for detecting H. pylori in gastric cancer patients...

..To evaluate the association between Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and gastric cancer (GC) according to tumor subtype in Korea...

..CONCLUSION: Synchronous cancers in gastric cancer patients are not infrequent. The physicians should try to find synchronous cancers in gastric cancer patients, especially in the elderly with a differentiated early gastric cancer...

..We evaluated the association between CYP2A6 polymorphisms and treatment outcome in metastatic gastric cancer patients treated with S-1 plus docetaxel...

..Few results regarding the long-term survival from laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy (LATG) have been reported. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of LATG in terms of long-term survival and morbidity...

..The aims of this study are to evaluate the predictive factors for local recurrence, and suggest an appropriate follow-up biopsy strategy...

..Therefore, we investigated the associations between IL10 polymorphisms, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, and smoking in noncardia gastric carcinogenesis in Koreans...

..5 cm, this was also 87.5%. CONCLUSIONS: These findings confirm that SN biopsy results are improved by using double tracers in gastric cancer and suggest that SN biopsy is suitable in cases of small-sized early gastric cancer...

..Therefore, an extended lymph node dissection is safe in gastric cancer patients with mild hepatic dysfunction. Liver cirrhosis and postoperative ascites can be managed conservatively without any complications...

..At 2 wk postoperatively, his human chorionic gonadotropin and AFP levels had reduced and six cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy were initiated. No recurrence or distant metastasis was observed at 4 years postoperatively...

..No recurrence or distant metastasis occurred during the subsequent 40 months. LADG combined with spleen-preserving LDP for EGC and IPMN was found to be feasible and less invasive than open surgery...

..Cell migration and/or growth plays a role in the repair process of gastric ulcer, so this study investigated the effect of DA6034 on the movement and proliferation of gastric epithelial cells and its associated signaling pathway...

..g., cancer or stroke), surgery, or hospitalization. In this study, we tried to identify factors that influence the decision to purchase supplementary PHI and investigate the impacts of PHI on various aspects of cancer care...

..CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS Our results demonstrate that sauchinone protects the liver from APAP-induced toxicity by activating Nrf2, and this effect is mediated by PKCδ activation, which induces inhibitory phosphorylation of GSK3β...

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..35%) of hemorrhage from esophageal varices. Hence, periesophagogastric devascularization and fundectomy offers an alternative operative method for cirrhotic patients with variceal hemorrhaging from the gastric fundus...

..There was 1 possible treatment-related death. CONCLUSIONS: Lower dose (50 mg/m2) docetaxel combined with 5-FU and cisplatin was active in MGC with a tolerable toxicity profile...

..Our results demonstrate that ILQ has the ability to repress LXRα-dependent hepatic steatosis through JNK1 inhibition and protect hepatocytes from oxidative injury inflicted by fat accumulation...

..The optimal treatment of BBAs has remained uncertain. Stents are known to divert blood flow and induce thrombosis of intracranial aneurysms. We report 3 cases of successful obliteration of BBAs after multiple stents placement...

..A retrospective study...

..More extensive, large-scaled study is necessary to validate the findings of the present study...

..Our results demonstrate that ajoene has an effect of activating AMPK through LKB1 and inhibit S6K1 activity, contributing to the prevention of SREBP-1c-mediated hepatic lipogenesis via the inhibition of LXRα activity...

..In clinical trials containing gastric cancer surgery, the learning curve for qualified surgery from the standpoint of oncological outcome should be considered to minimize bias due to surgeon-associated factors...

..LABIG is a safe and effective way of performing D2 gastrectomy in terms of morbidity and oncological principles. A randomized controlled clinical study to compare long-term survival and quality of life is warranted...

..A more efficient surgical instrument and technique should be developed in future...

..CONCLUSIONS: This weekly schedule of irinotecan was modestly active against cisplatin-refractory gastric cancer and relatively well-tolerated with appropriate dose modification...

..00 versus 2.87 versus 5.35 versus 12.3; P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: The use of endoscopy together with CT provides a better prognostic tool than CT alone in MGC patients treated with FP...

..Comorbidities and selected demographic characteristics had a greater effect than type of treatment on the QOL of post-operative stomach cancer patients...

..A retrospective comparative study...

..Despite some clear limitations, FDG PET proved useful in the LN staging of FDG-avid gastric cancer...

..Four patients experienced pneumonitis, but all of them responded to steroid treatment. The TX regimen was relatively well tolerated and effective against metastatic gastric cancer, with the added advantage of being an outpatient regimen...