Double‐Tract Reconstruction Designed to Allow More Food Flow to the Remnant Stomach After Laparoscopic Proximal Gastrectomy

Fujimoto, Daisuke; Taniguchi, Keizo; Kobayashi, Hirotoshi

doi:10.1007/s00268-020-05496-0

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Double‐Tract Reconstruction Designed to Allow More Food Flow to the Remnant Stomach After Laparoscopic Proximal Gastrectomy

Published in World Journal of Surgery • Mar 31, 2020

Authors:

Daisuke Fujimoto

Keizo Taniguchi

Hirotoshi Kobayashi

Abstract

PURPOSE: Laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy (LPG) is a function-preserving surgery performed on patients with cancer of the upper third of the stomach. However, if much of the ingested food passes through the jejunum, LPG might function broadly like a total gastrectomy. We devised a jejunogastrostomy...

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Medicine

Stomach

Anastomosis

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