title: Long-term outcomes of patients who underwent limited proximal gastrectomy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Because the incidence of early gastric cancers has been increasing in Asian countries, postoperative quality of life has received considerable attention in addition to oncological outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-four patients with clinically early gastric cancers were enrolled in this retrospective study. Among them, 35 patients underwent total gastrectomy (TG) and 49 patients underwent limited proximal gastrectomy (PG). Blood chemistry, changes in body weight, and oncological outcomes were compared between the two groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Postoperative hemoglobin levels and body weights were significantly lower in the TG group than in the PG group, and there were no significant differences in the levels of other nutritional indicators such as serum total protein and total cholesterol. However, the overall survival rates of patients in the PG group were similar to those of patients in the TG group (5-year survival rates, 95 versus 97 %, respectively; p = 0.86).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Limited proximal gastrectomy with regional lymph node dissection has possible positive effects on maintaining body weight and preventing postgastrectomy anemia with similar oncological outcomes to total gastrectomy in patients with early gastric cancers.
authors.affiliation: Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan, ichikawa@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.forename: Shuhei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Komatsu
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Kazuma
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shiozaki
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: Eigo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Otsuji
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001835:Body Weight; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol
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