Robotic versus laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for gastric cancer: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) has several benefits as a treatment of gastric cancer (GC), including reduced pain, early recovery of intestinal function, and shorter hospital stay. LG still has several drawbacks, however, including limited range of movement, amplification of hand tremors, and inconvenient surgical positioning. Around the peripancreatic area, laparoscopic lymph node dissection, therefore, remains challenging; postoperative pancreatic fistula occurs in around 4-7% of patients undergoing LG. Robotic surgery, on the other hand, plays a role in ergonomics and offers several advantages, including 7° of wrist-like motion, less fatigue, tremor filtering, motion scaling, and three-dimensional vision. In our previous retrospective study, we compared the safety and

SUBMITTER: Ojima T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6069719 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature