Role of obesity and abdominal shape morphometric features to predict postoperative complications and quality of lymph node dissection of gastrectomy for gastric cancer

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HASBAHCECI M., Mehdi E., Malya F. Ü. , Kunduz E. , Memmi N. , Yigman S. , ...More

NEOPLASMA, vol.64, no.6, pp.922-932, 2017 (Journal Indexed in SCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 64 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.4149/neo_2017_616
  • Title of Journal : NEOPLASMA
  • Page Numbers: pp.922-932
  • Keywords: gastric cancer, gastrectomy, complication, postoperative, lymphatic metastasis, obesity, abdominal, body weights and measures, BODY-MASS INDEX, ASSISTED DISTAL GASTRECTOMY, IMPACT, OUTCOMES, SURVIVAL, FAT, LYMPHADENECTOMY, OVERWEIGHT, WEIGHT, D2

Abstract

Obesity and abdominal shape morphometric features have been thought to be independent risk factors for surgical outcomes after gastrectomy.