Erratum to: 8th annual meeting of Chinese College of Surgeons and 19th annual meeting of the European Society of Surgery

Abstract

The proceedings contain 757 papers. The topics discussed include: comparison of clinical outcome and prognosis in patients with gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma by transthoracic and transabdominal hiatal approaches: a single Chinese teaching hospital retrospective cohort study; comparative study of clinical outcomes between laparoscopy-assisted proximal gastrectomy (LAPG) and laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy (LATG) for proximal gastric cancer; evaluating the clinical feasibility: the direct bisulfite genomic sequencing for examination of methylated status of protocadherin10 (PCDH10) promoter to predict the prognosis of gastric cancer; hand-assisted laparoscopic vs. laparoscopy-assisted D2 radical gastrectomy: a prospective study; initial discussion of the ratio between negative and positive lymph nodes as an alternative category to N stage of the 7th TNM classification for prediction the prognosis of gastric cancer patients after curative surgery; and is it feasible and safe for laparoscopic resection for gastric GIST larger than 5cm? result from a prospective study.