Laparoscopic gastric cancer surgery results in reduced wound complication and overall morbidity

Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) was first introduced in 1994 by Dr. Kitano, and was rapidly adopted in Japan, Korea, and China, where gastric cancer remains an endemic disease. However, in other parts of the world, laparoscopic gastrectomy has been relatively unpopular as compared to laparoscopic surgery for other organs, such as colorectal cancer surgery, because lymph node dissection and reconstruction method are more complicated than other organ cancer surgery.