Technical difficulties and countermeasures of laparoscopic radical gastrectomy        YU Pei-wu, Tang Bo. PLA General Surgery Center ， Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038，China
Corresponding author: YU Pei-wu, E-mail: yupeiwu01@sina.com
Abstract    Laparoscopic gastrectomy for the treatment of gastric cancer is currently the focus in the field of minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery. Compared to laparoscopic resection of colorectal cancer, laparoscopic gastrectomy is more complex and technically more difficult, duing to the surgical procedure including separation of a wide range of gastric tissues, radical lymph node dissection and effective reconstruction of digestive tract. Therefore the techniques develop slowly.