Ultrasonic shears assistance can shorten the console time in robotic gastrectomy for early gastric cancer.

Journal: BMC research notes
Published Date: Sep 15, 2015

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Robotic gastric surgery has been introduced and is being performed in many Japanese facilities. There are some limitations of devices capable to be used in the robotic arms in the da Vinci Surgical System. We have reviewed our first ten cases with early gastric cancer who underwent robot-assisted gastrectomy and have compared the operative time between cases who underwent the operation only with an electric cautery device and those in whom laparoscopic coagulating shears (LCS) through an assistant port were used.

Authors

  • Yoshihiro Kakeji
    Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. kakeji@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
  • Daisuke Kuroda
    Department of Surgery, Kumamoto General Hospital, Japan Community Health Care Organization, Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan.
  • Tetsu Nakamura
    Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. tetsun@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
  • Satoshi Suzuki
    Department of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 2-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku Sendai Miyagi 980-8575 Japan.
  • Masashi Yamamoto
    Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. m0125@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
  • Shingo Kanaji
    Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. kanashin@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
  • Tatsuya Imanishi
    Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. timnsh@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
  • Kenichi Tanaka
    Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. tanakake@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.

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