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Zhong-Wei Ke, Cheng-Zhu Zheng, Kai Yin, Ji-Hui Li, Ming-Gen Hu, Dan-Lei Chen, Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
Xiao-Ping Zou, Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
Correspondence to: Dr. Zhong-Wei Ke, Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 174 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China. weiz@miscenter.cn
Received: February 3, 2004 Revised: February 13, 2004 Accepted: February 21, 2004 Published online: May 15, 2004
AIM: Laparoscopic resection of the submucosal tumors on the gastric fundus, especially when they are on the posterior wall and next to the esophagocardiac junction (ECJ), is both difficult and time-consuming. Furthermore, it can lead to the inadvertent esophagus stenosis and injury to spleen. In order to solve these problems, wedge gastrectomy was adopted for the submucosal tumor on the anterior wall and the greater curvature of the gastric fundus, and laparoscopically extraluminal resection of the gastric fundus was designed for the submucosal tumor on the posterior wall of the gastric fundus and next to ECJ.
METHODS: Retrospective analysis was made in 32 cases, including 23 male and 9 female with an average age of 55 (range 36-78). Laparoscopic wedge gastrectomy had been carried out in 11 cases of submucosal tumor on the anterior wall of the gastric fundus and 6 on the greater gastric curvature. And laparoscopically extraluminal resection of the gastric fundus had been carried out on 15 cases on the posterior wall.
RESULTS: The mean operative time and intra-operative bleeding and postoperative hospital stay were (56.3±19.4 min), (53.1±30.1 mL), (4.7±0.5 d) respectively. Within 36 hours post-operation, 78.1% of all the patients resumed their gastrointestinal function and began to eat something and ambulated. The pathological diagnosis included mesen-chymoma of low malignancy (3 cases), leiomyoma (21 cases), mesenchymoma (7 cases), and neurofibroma (1 case). All the procedures were completed successfully with no apparent tumor focus left and no complication or conversion to open surgery happened.
CONCLUSION: The adopted and newly designed procedure can avoid the abdominal cavity contamination, the injury to spleen and the esophageal stenosis. And there is no limit to the range of gastric resection. Therefore, the procedure is both safe and effective.
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