Macroscopic Evaluation of Gastric Specimens After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy-an Optimum Screening Test for Incidental Pathologies?

During LSG, a thorough visual inspection of the peritoneal cavity along with a macroscopic surgical evaluation of specimen in patients who had preoperative endoscopy with no findings allows to achieve very good specificity and good sensitivity. Therefore, this procedure may be useful as a screening test for incidental pathologies in bariatric patients and may exclude unnecessary histological examination.