Short-term Outcomes of Robotic Gastrectomy vs Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Patients With Gastric Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Robotic gastrectomy (RG) for gastric cancer may be associated with decreased incidence of intra-abdominal infectious complications, including pancreatic fistula, leakage, and abscess. Prospective randomized clinical trials comparing laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) and RG are thus required.

Objective

To compare the short-term surgical outcomes of RG with those of LG for patients with gastric cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

In this phase 3, prospective superiority randomized clinical trial of RG vs LG regarding reduction of complications, 241 patients with resectable gastric cancer (clinical stages I-III) were enrolled between April 1, 2018, and October 31, 2020.

Interventions

LG vs RG.

Main outcomes and measures

The primary end point wa

SUBMITTER: Ojima T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8411361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature