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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are common soft tissue tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and are frequently encountered in surgical practice. The most common location for GISTs is the stomach. Principles of surgical management of resectable GISTs include removal with negative margins and no requirement for regional lymphadenectomy. Both open and minimally invasive surgical approaches have been utilized with noticeable trends toward laparoscopic and robotic techniques. There is little data on the robotic approach; however, small case series have reported favorable results. In fact, robotic techniques may allow surgeons to perform resections in more challenging locations. In this chapter, we describe a step-by-step approach to resection of a large GIST of the proximal stomach near the cardia with subsequent closure of the defect using the robotic platform.
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Merchant, S., Pyke, O., Kim, J. (2020). Robotic Segmental Gastrectomy for Large Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor. In: Kim, J., Garcia-Aguilar, J. (eds) Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques for Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18740-8_4
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