TY - JOUR AU - Iida, Atsushi AU - Goi, Takanori AU - Fujimoto, Daisuke AU - Hirono, Yasuo AU - Nishino, Takuma AU - Yokoi, Shigehiro AU - Watanabe, Takeshi AU - Togawa, Tamotsu AU - Kimura, Toshihisa AU - Fujii, Hidenori PY - 2017 TI - Initial results of reduced port laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer JF - Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery; Vol 2 (February 2017): Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery Y2 - 2017 KW - N2 - Reduced port laparoscopic gastrectomy (RPLG) for gastric cancer is started from some skilled surgeons in the selected cases. The procedures of RLPG have two ways that of using multi-channel-ports device and of using needle devices, reported from the meeting of 3rd Reduced Port Surgery Forum 2014 or recent publications. The current results of RLPG were not inferior to the conventional laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG). But further improvements in the instruments, the technique, and the education would be required for the wider indication to the reduced port surgery. UR - https://ales.amegroups.org/article/view/3734