Norio Shiraishi
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Total Citations
36
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About
Norio Shiraishi is a surgical researcher whose work sits at the intersection of minimally invasive surgery and oncological urology and gastroenterology. He has made meaningful contributions to the evolving field of laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgical techniques, with a particular focus on gastrectomy for gastric cancer and pelvic surgery for prostate cancer. His most-cited work (18 citations) documents a rare complication — internal hernia formation beneath the external iliac artery following robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy with extended pelvic lymph node dissection — offering clinicians a valuable cautionary case report in a rapidly growing surgical field. Across multiple publications, Shiraishi has tracked and contributed to the clinical evidence base for laparoscopic gastrectomy, reviewing the development of techniques since Japan pioneered laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy in 1991 and highlighting landmark prospective randomized controlled trials from Japan, Korea, and China. His 2016 overview of ongoing clinical studies underscores his role as a thoughtful synthesizer of emerging surgical evidence. For students and researchers in surgical oncology, Shiraishi's body of work provides a useful longitudinal perspective on how minimally invasive techniques have matured into standard-of-care approaches for gastric malignancies.
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- 3Current status of laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric malignancies.6 citations · 2010
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