Preoperative Muscle Quality and Postoperative Computed Tomography-Defined Muscle Loss Predict Prognosis After Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer.
BACKGROUND & AIMS Body weight (BW) loss after gastrectomy is commonly monitored, but it may not accurately reflect skeletal muscle depletion. We investigated the prognostic significance of postoperative CT-defined muscle loss after curative gastrectomy, with RFS as the primary endpoint. METHODS We retrospectively ana...