When is Vagus Nerve-Preserving Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer Safe?

[...] gastrectomy with truncal vagotomy could increase the incidence of cholelithiasis and diarrhea.1 The preservation of the hepatic branch and the celiac branch of the vagus nerve has been performed to solve the problem by Japanese scholars since the 1990s.2 The indication of vagus nerve-preservin...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American surgeon 2012-04, Vol.78 (4), p.499-500
Hauptverfasser:	Zhou, Zhongwen, Mao, Xiang, Luo, Fen, Wang, Jun
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Dissection Female Gastrectomy - methods Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen General aspects Humans Male Medical research Medical sciences Neoplasm Invasiveness Neoplasm Staging Stomach Neoplasms - pathology Stomach Neoplasms - surgery Stomach, duodenum, intestine, rectum, anus Stomach. Duodenum. Small intestine. Colon. Rectum. Anus Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Surgery of the digestive system Tumors Vagus Nerve - pathology Vagus Nerve - surgery
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Zusammenfassung:	[...] gastrectomy with truncal vagotomy could increase the incidence of cholelithiasis and diarrhea.1 The preservation of the hepatic branch and the celiac branch of the vagus nerve has been performed to solve the problem by Japanese scholars since the 1990s.2 The indication of vagus nerve-preserving operation is early gastric cancer and selected T2 cancer. Fifty cases of gastric cancer patients (34 male, 16 female) who underwent gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection in the general surgery department of Huashan Hospital from March 2011 to May 2011 were reviewed in the study.
ISSN:	0003-1348 1555-9823
DOI:	10.1177/000313481207800449