Preoperative endoscopic tattooing using India ink to determine the resection margins during totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

Yuta YamazakiShingo KanajiGosuke TakiguchiNaoki UrakawaHiroshi HasegawaMasashi YamamotoYoshiko MatsudaKimihiro YamashitaTakeru MatsudaTaro OshikiriTetsu NakamuraSatoshi SuzukiYoshihiro Kakeji

Published in: Surgery today (2020)

Our procedure to determine the proximal resection line in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy is oncologically safe. However, careful observation of the resected specimen and a frozen section analysis should be performed for undifferentiated advanced lesions.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
robot assisted
patients undergoing
lymph node
ultrasound guided
data analysis