Discussions on Changes in Gastric Lymph Drainage in Malignant Gastric Pathology in Terms of Intraoperative Lymphography

Abstract

Gastric cancer is common throughout Europa. In 2000 there were 192.000 diagnoses with 158.000 deaths.Despite advances in surgical therapy, and in neo or adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy the overall 5-year surgical rate remains poor about 20 per-cent compares with that of 70 per-cent achieved in Japan. Duch an UK [1,2] trials have examined whether extended lymphadenectomy might prove as affective in westem patients. The Dutch trial suggests a survival advantage in the D2 group,