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Laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy with oblique jejunogastrostomy

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Abstract

Background

Proximal early gastric cancer is a good indication for totally laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy (TLPG) with double-tract reconstruction (DTR). However, when most of the dietary intake passes through the escape route of the jejunum, the functional benefits of proximal gastrectomy might be similar to those after total gastrectomy. Our DTR procedure was improved for easy passage through the remnant stomach. The purposes of this study were to present a novel technique for intracorporeal DTR using linear staplers after TLPG and to investigate surgical outcomes.

Methods

DTR was performed using linear staplers only. A side-to-side jejunogastrostomy with twisting of both the remnant stomach and the anal jejunum was performed for the purpose of passing meals through the remnant stomach (an oblique jejunogastrostomy technique). The ten patients who underwent TLPG with DTR from January 2011 to August 2016 in Hokkaido University Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. Their clinicopathological characteristics and surgical and postoperative outcomes were collected and analyzed.

Results

The median duration of operation was 285 (range 146–440) min. No patients required blood transfusions. The number of dissected lymph nodes was 32 (range 22–56). There were no intraoperative complications, and no cases were converted to open surgery. All the patients were pT1N0M0 stage IA. No anastomotic leakage or complications were detected. Postoperative gastrography after reconstruction showed that contrast medium flowed mainly to the remnant stomach. The average percentage body weight loss was 14.0 ± 7.1% at 10 months. The average percentage decrease in serum hemoglobin was 5.4 ± 10.4% at 12 months.

Conclusions

This novel technique for intracorporeal DTR provided a considerable advantage by the passage of dietary intake to the remnant stomach after LPG.

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    Kimitaka Tanaka, Yuma Ebihara, Yo Kurashima, Yoshitsugu Nakanishi, Toshimichi Asano, Takehiro Noji, Soichi Murakami, Toru Nakamura, Takahiro Tsuchikawa, Keisuke Okamura, Toshiaki Shichinohe & Satoshi Hirano

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Study conception and design: Kimitaka Tanaka, Yuma Ebihara, Yo Kurashima, and Satoshi Hirano; acquisition of data: Kimitaka Tanaka, Yuma Ebihara, and Yo Kurashima; drafting of manuscript: Kimitaka, Tanaka, Yuma Ebihara, and Satoshi Hirano; and critical revision of manuscript: Yuma Ebihara, Yo Kurashima, Yoshitsugu Nakanishi, Toshimichi Asano, Takehiro Noji, Soichi Murakami, Toru Nakamura, Takahiro Tsuchikawa, Keisuke Okamura, Toshiaki Shichinohe, and Satoshi Hirano

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Tanaka, K., Ebihara, Y., Kurashima, Y. et al. Laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy with oblique jejunogastrostomy. Langenbecks Arch Surg 402, 995–1002 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-017-1587-4

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