Zhuang CL, et al. - In patients who had radical resection of gastric carcinoma, researchers examined how myosteatosis impacts postoperative complications and survival. From a prospectively collected database, they identified 973 patients who underwent elective radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer and had computed tomographic images. Of these, they analyzed 584 and identified the association of myosteatosis in gastric cancer with poor prognosis, as the myosteatosis group displayed significantly higher severe postoperative complications rates, shorter overall survival, and disease-free survival vs the nonmyosteatosis group. They recognized a promising value of classifying the skeletal muscle into subranges of radio density for understanding the influence of skeletal muscle on unfavorable surgical outcomes in gastric cancer patients.