Prophylactic Drain Versus No Drain in Curative Gastric Cancer Surgery-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Dillip Kumar MudulyMohammed ImaduddinMahesh SultaniaTim HoughtonPavan Kumar C GP Bhaskar RaoJayanta Kumar MitraBikram Kishore BeheraSudipta MohakudMadhabananda Kar

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2022)

Avoid placing a prophylactic drain is not inferior to drain placement following gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy for stomach adenocarcinoma. So, routine prophylactic drain placement can be avoided.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
squamous cell carcinoma
early stage
lymph node
ultrasound guided
coronary artery bypass
rectal cancer
lymph node metastasis
radiation therapy
locally advanced
percutaneous coronary intervention
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
prognostic factors
surgical site infection