Intracorporeal hand-sewn anastomosis following pylorus-preserving gastrectomy: surgical technique and short-term surgical outcome

• Published in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery Vol. 407; no. 4; pp. 1711 - 1720
• Main Authors: Aizawa, Masaki, Yabusaki, Hiroshi, Matsuki, Atsushi, Bamba, Takeo, Nakagawa, Satoru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2022
• Subjects: Abdominal Surgery; Cardiac Surgery; General Surgery; How-I-Do-It articles; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Thoracic Surgery; Traumatic Surgery; Vascular Surgery; Intracorporeal anastomosis; Hand-sewn anastomosis; End-to-end gastrogastrostomy; Early gastric cancer; Totally laparoscopic pylorus-preserving gastrectomy

Background Although several procedures for mechanical anastomosis have recently been reported, intracorporeal manually hand-sewn anastomosis for totally laparoscopic pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (TLPPG) is considered technically difficult. Here, we report a new technique for laparoscopic reconstru...