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Review
. 2017 Apr 25;1(1):5-10.
doi: 10.1002/ags3.12008. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Gastroenterological surgery in Japan: The past, the present and the future

Hugh Colvin  1 , Tsunekazu Mizushima  1 , Hidetoshi Eguchi  1 , Shuji Takiguchi  1 , Yuichiro Doki  1 , Masaki Mori  1
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Review

Gastroenterological surgery in Japan: The past, the present and the future

Hugh Colvin et al. Ann Gastroenterol Surg. .

Erratum in

  • Erratum.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Ann Gastroenterol Surg. 2017 Sep 11;1(3):239. doi: 10.1002/ags3.12044. eCollection 2017 Sep. Ann Gastroenterol Surg. 2017. PMID: 29863726 Free PMC article.

Abstract

In the last two centuries, there has been remarkable progress in the field of gastroenterological surgery, including the curative resection of cancers, replacement of failed organs through transplantation, increased safety of undergoing major surgeries and decreased operative morbidity through developments in minimal access surgery. Japan has very much been at the forefront of these advances, as is evident from the present review, from advancing the surgical management of gastric cancer to the pioneering work in live-donor transplantation. This review also highlights many instances where surgical management of the same pathologies has evolved differently between Japan and the West. It is encouraging that many procedures established in Japan are eventually taken up by the West, often after rigorous assessment affirming the quality and applicability of such techniques. In Japan, many of the crucial issues in gastroenterological surgery are increasingly addressed through large multi-institutional prospective control trials, ensuring that Japanese surgeons continue to contribute to the advances in gastroenterological surgery.

Keywords: Japan; advances; gastroenterological surgery; history; progress.

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