Katsushi Takebayashi, Satoshi Murata, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Mitsuaki Ishida, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Masatsugu Kojima, Tomoharu Shimizu, Hisanori Shiomi, Hiromichi Sonoda, Shigeyuki Naka, Eiji Mekata, Hidetoshi Okabe, Tohru Tani
BACKGROUND: Some patients who undergo curative gastrectomy with lymph node dissection (LND) for gastric cancer (GC) show subsequent peritoneal metastasis. The source of these metastatic cells remains unclear. METHODS: Curative gastrectomy with LND was performed in 102 patients with GC. Peritoneal washing was collected before and after gastrectomy. Cytology, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, and cell culture were used to determine the presence of cancer cells...
June 2014: Annals of Surgical Oncology