Abstract:Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of 3D laparoscopy in radical resection of distal gastric cancer in the elderly patients.Methods Clinical data of 64 elderly patients with distal gastric cancer in our hospital from May 2018 to May 2020 were retrospectively analyzed, according to the operation methods of the patients, there were 32 cases in the control group and 32 cases in the observation group, the control group used open distal gastric cancer radical resection, the observation group used 3D laparoscopic distal gastric cancer radical resection. The two groups were compared with surgical indicators, postoperative recovery effects, inflammation status, plasma gastrin-related indicators and complications rate.Results The amount of intraoperative bleeding in the observation group was less than that in the control group, and the postoperative recovery effect was better than that in the control group. The white blood cell (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), somatostatin (SST) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) were lower than those in the control group, motilin (MTL) was higher than that in the control group, the differences between the two groups were statistically significant (P < 0.05); The incidence of complications in the observation group was lower than that in the control group, but there was no significant difference between the two groups (P > 0.05).Conclusion 3D laparoscopy can significantly improve the clinical indicators, postoperative recovery indicators, inflammatory status and plasma gastrin-related indicators in elderly patients with distal gastric cancer, and help reduce the incidence of complications in patients. It is worthy of clinical application.