Robotic radical lymphadenectomy without touching the pancreas during gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

ABSTRACT: Laparoscopic lymph node dissection around the peripancreatic area for gastric cancer (GC) remains challenging because of drawbacks in laparoscopic surgery including the limited range of movement, amplification of hand tremors, and inconvenient surgical positioning. In some cases of laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG), therefore, postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) occurs. Robotic surgery, on the other hand, plays an essential role in ergonomics and offers advantages, such as motion scaling, less fatigue, tremor filtering, 7 degrees of motion in the robotic instruments assisted by the wrist-like instruments tips, and three-dimensional vision. Robotic gastrectomy (RG) may enable surgeons to overcome the drawbacks associated with laparoscopic surgery. This study compares the safety and feasibil

SUBMITTER: Ojima T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6456026 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature