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Annals of Surgical Oncology, Vol 5, Issue 4 338-341, Copyright © 1998 by Society of Surgical Oncology

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Limited surgery for early gastric cancer in cardia

H. Furukawa, M. Hiratsuka, S. Imaoka, O. Ishikawa, T. Kabuto, Y. Sasaki, M. Kameyama, H. Ohigashi, H. Nakano and T. Yasuda
Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan.

BACKGROUND: Because there are some difficulties with the diagnosis of invasion or the endoscopic resection technique, almost all gastric tumors are resected surgically. Surgeons now are performing a limited operation for early gastric cancer of the upper stomach (EGCUS) without lymph node metastasis. This paper discusses and evaluates the surgical technique and the results of the limited operation for EGCUS. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Since 1988, a total of 34 patients with EGCUS, diagnosed as intramucosal invasion, have undergone a limited operation--fundectomy--which includes a limited proximal gastrectomy, a limited lymph node dissection, and a procedure preserving the vagal nerve. The surgical risk, postoperative complications, and survival rates of the fundectomy patients (group A) were compared with those of patients undergoing a total gastrectomy for EGCUS (group B). RESULTS: Blood loss was lower in group A (300+/-193 mL) than in group B (555+/-316 mL) (P <.05). The incidence of postoperative pancreatic fistula also was lower in group A (0%) than in group B (15.0%) (P <.05). All patients in both groups (except one who died of a cerebral infarction) are alive without recurrence. CONCLUSION: Compared to the results of a total gastrectomy, performance of a limited fundectomy for EGCUS decreased surgical risk and postoperative complications without decreasing the survival rate.




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