RT Journal
A1 Pacelli F, Rosa F, Doglietto G
T1 TOtal gastrectomy—reply
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2009
FD March 16
VO 144
IS 3
SP 289
OP 292
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2008.585
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2008.585
AB 
Lower cancers and those located in the middle, where it is possible to achieve a 5-cm proximal margin, are best treated with a distal subtotal gastrectomy.1 Given its retrospective nature, our study (which encompass a long period of time) also includes a group of patients with antral cancer who underwent, during the early years of our experience, the so-called de principe TG, which was subsequently abandoned.