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Totally Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer: An Initial Experience  

Lee, Jeong-Seon (Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, School of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital)
Lee, Han-Hong (Seoul St. Mary's Hospital)
Kim, Jin-Jo (Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, School of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital)
Park, Seung-Man (Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, School of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital)
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Journal of Gastric Cancer / v.10, no.1, 2010 , pp. 26-33 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: We wanted to evaluate the technical feasibility and safety of totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy (TLTG) for treating early gastric cancer. Materials and Methods: The medical records of 11 consecutive patients who underwent TLTG after being diagnosed with early gastric cancer at Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea from February 2005 to September 2009 were retrospectively reviewed and their clinicopathologic characteristics and the surgical results wereinvestigated. Results: The mean operation time was $385.6{\pm}94.1$ minutes, the mean time for creating an intracorporeal anastomosis was $97.5{\pm}60.0$ minutes and the mean number of the harvested lymph nodes was $46.6{\pm}15.4$ The mean number of days after operation until starting a liquid diet was the $6.1{\pm}7.6^{th}$ postoperative day and the mean hospital stay after surgery was $14.2{\pm}11.9$ days. There was no case of open conversion, but there were 2 cases of intraoperative complication and 3 cases of postoperative complication. There was one case of postoperative mortality. The patient suffered from thrombocytopenia of an unknown cause, which was refractory to platelet transfusion, on $4^{th}$ postoperative day and the patient died of intraabdominal bleeding on the $6^{th}$ postoperative day. Conclusion: TLTG was a technically feasible and relatively safe procedure. However, a long time for creating the intracoproeal anastomosis and a long operation time are still problems to be solved.
Keywords
Totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; ntracorporeal anastomosis;
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