Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has become one of the standard surgical procedures for gastric cancer in Japan and Korea. However, LADG is currently listed as being in the clinical research phase under ...Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has become one of the standard surgical procedures for gastric cancer in Japan and Korea. However, LADG is currently listed as being in the clinical research phase under the Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines. The aim of this study is to report surgeons’ opinions of what is needed if LADG is to become a standard procedure. We conducted questionnaire survey with open questions in hospitals that either applied or did not apply LADG and compared the answers. We labeled and categorized the collected data using content analysis. The number of hospitals which applied LADG more than doubled from 5 to 12 hospitals over 3 years. Overall, hospitals reported that the necessary elements for LADG to become a standard procedure are: clinical trials of LADG (n = 5, 22.7%), surgeons’ practical experience in performing LADG (n = 4, 18.2%), stability of radical treatment (n = 4, 18.2%), and a shorter operative duration (n = 3, 13.6%) for the procedure. Surgeons’ practical experience was chosen as the most important requirement in the hospitals which applied LADG while clinical trials (n = 2, 40.0%) and stability of radical treatment (n = 2, 40.0%) were the most common answers in the hospitals which did not apply LADG. Hospitals and surgeons’ practical experience, stabilizing radical cure, and the large scale of clinical trials are for LADG to become a standard procedure and to gain equivalent importance as open distal gastrectomy in treating gastric cancer.展开更多
The purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of laparoscopy assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) performed by one operating and advising surgeon in patients with gastric canc...The purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of laparoscopy assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) performed by one operating and advising surgeon in patients with gastric cancer over a period of 10 years. We examined the choice of anastomosis techniques, and compared the duration of surgery, blood loss, number of dissected lymph nodes and intraoperative complications for LADG and open distal gastrectomy (ODG). We studied 254 patients who underwent laparoscopic gastrectomy and 36 patients who underwent ODG. 169 of 254 patients received LADG. Duration of surgery was significantly longer for LADG than that for ODG, blood loss was significantly smaller, and numbers of dissected lymph nodes were similar. With LADG, there was anastomotic leakage in 2 patients and postoperative obstruction in 2 patients. No recurrence of disease and no deaths have been reported to date. Though previous clinical trials have shown that LADG is less invasive, our study of LADG in the real world did not show superiority, but rather equivalence to ODG in terms of other outcomes. This study could be advantageous to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of LADG without having to take into account multiple surgeons’ technical levels and the background differences between the facilities.展开更多
文摘Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has become one of the standard surgical procedures for gastric cancer in Japan and Korea. However, LADG is currently listed as being in the clinical research phase under the Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines. The aim of this study is to report surgeons’ opinions of what is needed if LADG is to become a standard procedure. We conducted questionnaire survey with open questions in hospitals that either applied or did not apply LADG and compared the answers. We labeled and categorized the collected data using content analysis. The number of hospitals which applied LADG more than doubled from 5 to 12 hospitals over 3 years. Overall, hospitals reported that the necessary elements for LADG to become a standard procedure are: clinical trials of LADG (n = 5, 22.7%), surgeons’ practical experience in performing LADG (n = 4, 18.2%), stability of radical treatment (n = 4, 18.2%), and a shorter operative duration (n = 3, 13.6%) for the procedure. Surgeons’ practical experience was chosen as the most important requirement in the hospitals which applied LADG while clinical trials (n = 2, 40.0%) and stability of radical treatment (n = 2, 40.0%) were the most common answers in the hospitals which did not apply LADG. Hospitals and surgeons’ practical experience, stabilizing radical cure, and the large scale of clinical trials are for LADG to become a standard procedure and to gain equivalent importance as open distal gastrectomy in treating gastric cancer.
文摘The purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of laparoscopy assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) performed by one operating and advising surgeon in patients with gastric cancer over a period of 10 years. We examined the choice of anastomosis techniques, and compared the duration of surgery, blood loss, number of dissected lymph nodes and intraoperative complications for LADG and open distal gastrectomy (ODG). We studied 254 patients who underwent laparoscopic gastrectomy and 36 patients who underwent ODG. 169 of 254 patients received LADG. Duration of surgery was significantly longer for LADG than that for ODG, blood loss was significantly smaller, and numbers of dissected lymph nodes were similar. With LADG, there was anastomotic leakage in 2 patients and postoperative obstruction in 2 patients. No recurrence of disease and no deaths have been reported to date. Though previous clinical trials have shown that LADG is less invasive, our study of LADG in the real world did not show superiority, but rather equivalence to ODG in terms of other outcomes. This study could be advantageous to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of LADG without having to take into account multiple surgeons’ technical levels and the background differences between the facilities.
