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The use of staplers for anterior anastomoses

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The EEA stapler is a convenient, well-designed, and reliable instrument. It will anastomose the bowel with reliability and speed at least equivalent to hand-sewn techniques, and probably offers a technical advantage in performing very low rectal anastomoses. Unfortunately, intraoperative misadventures are greater with this device than with hand-sewn techniques, and its use would seem best restricted to those situations in which it has its greatest advantage. Postoperative complications are not increased by its use, but the long-term incidence of anastomotic stricture and possibly increased rate of local recurrence need to be clarified.

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La pince agrafeuse E.E.A. est un instrument bien adapté, pratique et fiable. Elle permet de réaliser des anastomoses intestinales avec une sécurité et une rapidité equivalentes à celles des techniques classiques. Elle permet surtout de réaliser des anastomoses colo-rectales très basses mais malheureusement les difficultés opératoires sont alors souvent plus grandes que lors de la constitution de l'anastomose à la main. Le taux des complications opératoires n'est pas augmenté mais à long terme celui des rétrécissements est plus grand cependant que le taux des récidives post-opératoires demande a etre apprécié avec soin.

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Beart, R.W., Wolff, B.G. The use of staplers for anterior anastomoses. World J. Surg. 6, 525–530 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01657865

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