title: Management of postoperative complications of lymphadenectomy.
abstract: Gastric cancer remains a disease with poor prognosis, mainly due to its late diagnosis. Surgery remains as the only treatment with curative intent, where the goal is radical resection with free-margin gastrectomy and extended lymphadenectomy. Over the last two decades there has been an improvement on postoperative outcomes. However, complications rate is still not negligible even in high volume specialized centers and are directly related mainly to the type of gastric resection: total or subtotal, combined with adjacent organs resection and the extension of lymphadenectomy (D1, D2 and D3). The aim of this study is to analyze the complications specific-related to lymphadenectomy in gastric cancer surgery.
authors.affiliation: Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Leandro Cardoso
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Barchi
authors.affiliation: Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Amir Zeide
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Charruf
authors.affiliation: Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rodrigo José
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Eduardo
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.affiliation: Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cecconello
authors.affiliation: Digestive Surgery Division, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zilberstein
keywords: Gastric cancer; lymphadenectomy; management of complications; stomach neoplasm