This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Colette S Inaba during the SS02: Outcomes/Quality Session on April 11 2018
Keyword(s): comorbidity, demographics, disease staging, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract, GIST, laparoscopic approach, laparoscopic resection, laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopy, length of stay, LOS, lymph node metastasis, margins, meta-analyses, mortality, National Cancer Database, NCDB, oncologic outcomes, open resection, open surgery, pathologic stage, quality, readmission, recurrence, rupture, selection bias, small intestive, stomach, survival, survival outcomes, tumor pathology