Laparoscopic gastrectomy has been widely accepted as a standard alternative for the
treatment of early-stage gastric adenocarcinoma because of its favorable short-term …

Surgery used to be the only therapy for gastric cancer, and since its ability to cure gastric
cancer was the focus of attention, less attention was paid to function-preserving surgery in …

Photodynamic diagnosis based on 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX has
been clinically applied in many fields based upon its evidenced efficacy and adequate …

Background Lymph node metastasis occurs in approximately 10% of early gastric cancer.
Preoperative or intra-operative identification of lymph node metastasis in early gastric …

Over the last decade, as the number of patients with early gastric cancer increased and the
subsequent survival rate improved, there has been a consistent effort to verify the …

In the era of minimally destructive surgery, 2 important points must be considered: removal
of the target lesion without removing normal tissue and obtaining a sufficient resection …

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) navigation surgery is accepted as a standard treatment
procedure for malignant melanoma and breast cancer. However, the benefit of reduced …

Background Sentinel node (SN) mapping using dye and radioisotope (RI) tracer has been
reported to be feasible in cases of early gastric cancer. Because accurate diagnosis of …

Background The establishment of a precise and rapid method to detect metastatic lymph
nodes (LNs) is essential to perform less invasive surgery with reduced gastrectomy along …

Background Tumor-specific fluorescent antibodies, which can be recognized at a cellular or
tissue level using optical imaging such as confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE), could …