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Near‐total gastrectomy
Author(s) -
Takagi Hiroshi,
Morimoto Takeshi
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930260105
Subject(s) - medicine , gastrectomy , stoma (medicine) , anastomosis , cancer , surgery , general surgery
Total gastrectomy has more frequent and serious postoperative complications than subtotal gastrectomy. An esophago‐gastric stoma with a side‐to‐side anastomosis permits a near‐total gastrectomy to be undertaken with virtually the same results as a total gastrectomy. This procedure is used for early gastric cancers that have widely spreading, single or multiple lesions, or lesions near the esophago‐gastric junction, and for the cure or palliative resection of selected patients with advanced gastric cancer.