Status and progress about total gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Gastric cancer is a common gastrointestinal cancer.With the incidence of cancer in the middle and proximal stomach is increasing year by year,radical total gastrectomy as a major operative method,is widely used in the treatment of gastric cancer.However,various surgical complications often occur after total gastrectomy,which affect patients' postoperative recovery and the quality of life.This article discussed the influential factors of surgical complications after total gastrectomy,and discussed the feasibility of applying Clavien-Dindo classification system to evaluate the severity of complications after total gastrectomy.