Shin-Hoo Park, Chang-Min Lee, Hoon Hur, Jae-Seok Min, Seung Wan Ryu, Young-Gil Son, Hyun Dong Chae, Oh Jeong, Mi Ran Jung, Chang In Choi, Kyo Young Song, Han Hong Lee, Ho Goon Kim, Ye Seob Jee, Sun-Hwi Hwang, Moon-Soo Lee, Kwang Hee Kim, Sang Hyuk Seo, In Ho Jeong, Myoung Won Son, Chang Hyun Kim, Moon-Won Yoo, Sung Jin Oh, Jeong Goo Kim, Seong Ho Hwang, Sung Il Choi, Kyung Sook Yang, Hua Huang, Sungsoo Park
BACKGROUNDS: Strong evidence is lacking as no confirmatory randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have compared the efficacy of totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (TLDG) with laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG). We performed an RCT to confirm if TLDG is different from LADG. METHODS: The XXXXX trial is a multicentre, open-label, parallel-group, phase III, RCT of 442 patients with clinical stage I gastric cancer. Patients were enrolled from 21 cancer care centers in South Korea between January 2018 and September 2020 and randomized to undergo TLDG or LADG using blocked randomization with a 1:1 allocation ratio, stratified by the participating investigators...
May 6, 2024: International Journal of Surgery