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Clinical outcome of pylorus-preserving gastrectomy in gastric cancer in comparison with conventional distal gastrectomy with Billroth I anastomosis.

Do Joong Park, Hyuk-Joon Lee, Hyun Chae Jung, Woo Ho Kim, Kuhn Uk Lee, and Han-Kwang Yang

World J Surg 32(6):1029-36 (2008) PMID 18256877

Pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (PPG) was originally a treatment option in gastric ulcer surgery and is now being performed as a limited surgery in some early gastric cancer cases. This study was designed to evaluate the postoperative functional characteristics of PPG versus conventional distal gastrectomy with Billroth I anastomosis (BI).

DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9441-4
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