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Gastric Stump*

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Gastric Stump*

Gastric stump cancer is defined as cancers that develop in the gastric remnant after the gastric resection of nonmalignant lesions or malignant lesions. The interval between gastrectomy and the detection of gastric stump cancer must be over 5 years in nonmaligant lesions and 10 years in malignant lesions. Symptoms of gastric stump cancer are not specific, so, diagnosis is often delayed. Early detection and curative operation is very important in gasric stump cancer and follow-up endoscopic examination is the most importaint diagnostic tool to detect gastric stump cancer. Recently we experienced a case of early gastric stump cancer. We report review of the literature to remind the important of gastric stump cancer and the important of follow-up endoscopic examination.
Diagnosis ; Esophagus* ; Follow-Up Studies ; Gastrectomy* ; Gastric Stump* ; Intestines* ; Stomach*

In Korea, proximal gastrectomy has recently attracted attention as a better choice of function-preserving surgery for proximal early gastric cancer than total gastrectomy. Of the various strategies to overcome reflux symptoms from remnant stomach, double tract reconstruction not only reduces the incidence of anastomosis-related complications, but is also sufficiently reproducible as a laparoscopic procedure. Catching up with the recent rise of single-port laparoscopic surgeries, we performed a pure single-port laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy with DTR. This procedure was designed by merging the function-preserving concept of proximal gastrectomy with single-port laparoscopic total gastrectomy.
Gastrectomy* ; Gastric Stump ; Incidence ; Korea ; Laparoscopy ; Stomach Neoplasms*

Many studies have shown that gastric stump cancer develops after distal gastrectomy, particularly after Billroth II reconstruction. But, recurrent cancer at the duodenal stump following Billroth II type distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer is extremely rare. We report a case of duodenal stump cancer in a 64-year-old man underwent Billroth II distal gastrectomy.
Gastrectomy ; Gastric Stump ; Gastroenterostomy ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Recurrence ; Stomach Neoplasms

PURPOSE: An uncut Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy has been known to be effective in preventing bile reflux gastritis in the remnant stomach and the Roux stasis syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To evaluate the usefulness of a totally laparoscopic uncut Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy (TLuRYGJ) after a distal gastrectomy, we reviewed the medical records of 19 consecutive patients that underwent a TLuRYGJ at our institution, and 11 consecutive patients who underwent a totally laparoscopic Billroth I gastrectomy (TLB-I) during the same period. RESULTS: Postoperative gastrointestinal symptoms related to the postgastrectomy syndrome and the Visick classification at six months after surgery were not different in the two groups; however, there was no case of symptomatic bile reflux gastritis and only one case of delayed gastric empting, for which medication was required, in the TLuRYGJ group. The endoscopic findings of the remnant stomach for bile reflux gastritis at six months after surgery were better in the TLuRYGJ group than in the TLB-I group. CONCLUSION: A TLuRYGJ was found to be effective in preventing bile reflux gastritis and the Roux stasis syndrome.
Bile Reflux ; Classification ; Gastrectomy* ; Gastric Bypass* ; Gastric Stump ; Gastritis ; Gastroenterostomy* ; Humans ; Laparoscopy ; Medical Records ; Postgastrectomy Syndromes

Cancer of the gastric stump, first described by Balfour in 1922, is defined as the cancer detected more than 5 years after surgery for a benign disease. We experienced a case of cancer found at the gastric stump after gastrojejunostomy in a 53 years old male patients, proven pathologically as a early cancer. He visited to our hospital with the chief complaint of epigastric pain and indigestion for 1 Months. On past history, he has been received gastrojejunostomy due to duodenal ulcer obstruction, 23 years ago, Gastrofiberscopy was done, and we could find the early gastric cancer lesions at the anterior wall of gastric angle as type Ilc+III and antrum as type IIa. The microscopic finding of the multiple endoscopic biopsies at the gastic angle and antrum revealed the adenocarcinoma of signet ring cell type infiltrated to the level of submucosa. And so, we could diagnose these lesions as a early gastric cancer in the gastric stump after gastrojejunostomy. He was treated with subtotal gastrectomy and discharged with cured condition. Therefore, we report this case with a literature review.
Adenocarcinoma ; Biopsy ; Duodenal Ulcer* ; Dyspepsia ; Gastrectomy ; Gastric Bypass* ; Gastric Stump* ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Stomach Neoplasms

Obesity is one of the most significant causes of GERD. Nissen fundoplication is a surgical procedure that's performed world widely for treating patients with GERD and a hiatal hernia and who are intractable to medical therapy. However, Nissen fundoplication may have technical difficulties in morbidly obese patients due to the huge perigastric, intraabdominal fat tissue and hepatomegaly. During the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (LRYGB) procedure, the stomach was divided into the gastric pouch and the remnant stomach by vertiacally stapling at the angle of His. The posterior gastric wall and hiatus were easily exposed even when there was huge deposits of perigatric and intraabdominal fat tissue. We report here on a case of concomitant hiatal hernia repair with LRYGB in a morbidly obese patient.
Fundoplication ; Gastric Bypass ; Gastric Stump ; Gastroesophageal Reflux ; Hepatomegaly ; Hernia, Hiatal ; Humans ; Obesity ; Obesity, Morbid ; Stomach

PURPOSE: We compared the safety of the double-stapling method with that of the hand-sewn method when performing a Billroth I anastomosis (BI) after a radical subtotal gastrectomy. METHODS: Fifty-three (53) patients who received a BI with stapler from February 1998 to April 1999 were compared with 24 patients who received a BI with the hand-sewn method from January 1996 to December 1998. All the patients were divided into three groups according to the type of reconstruction: Group 1 (n=42), double- stapling method, Group 2 (n=11), anastomosis through posterior gastric wall, and Group 3 (n=24), hand- sewn method. The length of the greater curvature, lesser curvature, and proximal margin and the number of resected lymph nodes were compared for radicality, and the incidence of complications was reviewed. ANOVA and the chi-square test were used for the statistical analysis. RESULTS: The mean ages were 55.2+/-10.8, 59.8+/-9.7, and 54.7+/-11.9 years for groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively. The sex ratios were 2.2:1, 1.2:1, and 1.4:1. The lengths (cm) of the greater curvature were 17.2+/-2.5, 18.4+/-2.5, and 18.6+/-3.3, and the lengths of the lesser curvature were 10.4+/-1.5, 10.9+/-1.6, and 10.7+/-2.1; however, the differences were not statistically significant (p>0.05). The lengths of the proximal resection margin were 5.4+/-2.5, 8.2+/-3.3, and 6.0+/-3.2 (p<0.05), and the numbers of resected lymph nodes were 25.3+/-8.3, 19.1+/-5.8, and 32.+/- 13.7 (p<0.01). We experienced no complication in any group, except one case of leakage in the hand-sewn group. CONCLUSION: The double-stapling technique is a safe operative method in BI after a radical subtotal gastrectomy with its very low complication rate. Especially, the so- called Tornado method is a more useful method since it doesn't need a gastrotomy in the remnant stomach.
Gastrectomy* ; Gastric Stump ; Gastroenterostomy* ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lymph Nodes ; Sex Ratio ; Stomach Neoplasms ; Tornadoes

PURPOSE: We compared the safety of the double-stapling method with that of the hand-sewn method when performing a Billroth I anastomosis (BI) after a radical subtotal gastrectomy. METHODS: Fifty-three (53) patients who received a BI with stapler from February 1998 to April 1999 were compared with 24 patients who received a BI with the hand-sewn method from January 1996 to December 1998. All the patients were divided into three groups according to the type of reconstruction: Group 1 (n=42), double- stapling method, Group 2 (n=11), anastomosis through posterior gastric wall, and Group 3 (n=24), hand- sewn method. The length of the greater curvature, lesser curvature, and proximal margin and the number of resected lymph nodes were compared for radicality, and the incidence of complications was reviewed. ANOVA and the chi-square test were used for the statistical analysis. RESULTS: The mean ages were 55.2+/-10.8, 59.8+/-9.7, and 54.7+/-11.9 years for groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively. The sex ratios were 2.2:1, 1.2:1, and 1.4:1. The lengths (cm) of the greater curvature were 17.2+/-2.5, 18.4+/-2.5, and 18.6+/-3.3, and the lengths of the lesser curvature were 10.4+/-1.5, 10.9+/-1.6, and 10.7+/-2.1; however, the differences were not statistically significant (p>0.05). The lengths of the proximal resection margin were 5.4+/-2.5, 8.2+/-3.3, and 6.0+/-3.2 (p<0.05), and the numbers of resected lymph nodes were 25.3+/-8.3, 19.1+/-5.8, and 32.+/- 13.7 (p<0.01). We experienced no complication in any group, except one case of leakage in the hand-sewn group. CONCLUSION: The double-stapling technique is a safe operative method in BI after a radical subtotal gastrectomy with its very low complication rate. Especially, the so- called Tornado method is a more useful method since it doesn't need a gastrotomy in the remnant stomach.
Gastrectomy* ; Gastric Stump ; Gastroenterostomy* ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lymph Nodes ; Sex Ratio ; Stomach Neoplasms ; Tornadoes