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01-09-2020 | Colon Cancer | 2019 SAGES Oral

“Caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the superior mesenteric artery for the treatment of right colon cancer: is it more in line with the principle of oncology?

Authors: Xiaojiang Yi, Hongming Li, Xinquan Lu, Jin Wan, Dechang Diao

Published in: Surgical Endoscopy | Issue 9/2020

Abstract

Objective

To explore the feasibility and application value of a “caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) for the treatment of right colon cancer

Methods

Clinical data consisting of 168 right colon cancer cases under going laparoscopic D3 radical resection, including 84 cases of “caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the SMA (CC + SMA group) and 84 cases of conventional medial approach plus dissection around the superior mesenteric vein (MA + SMV group), from January 2017 to March 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. For CC + SMA group, our surgical method was to isolate the mesocolon using a caudal-to-cranial pathway and ligate blood vessels along the midline of the SMA.

Results

The baseline data was not significantly different between the two groups (all p > 0.05). The mean operation time and intraoperative blood loss in the CC + SMA and the MA + SMV groups were 170.04 ± 43.10 versus 172.33 ± 41.84 min and 91.07 ± 55.12 versus 77.38 ± 40.21 ml, respectively, which has no significant difference (p > 0.05). The mean number of total and positive harvested lymph nodes in the two groups were 29.44 ± 5.90 versus 26.21 ± 6.64 (p < 0.05) and 2.57 ± 1.93 versus 2.51 ± 1.05, respectively (p > 0.05). Compared with the MA + SMV group, there was no significant difference in total postoperative complication rate in the CC + SMA group. The time to pull out drainage tube in the CC + SMA group was longer than MA + SMV group (4.05 ± 1.79 versus 3.38 ± 1.99 day; p = 0.022).

Conclusion

It is safe and feasible for the “caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the SMA in right colon cancer. It may have some advantages in the number of lymph nodes dissection, and the long-term prognosis remains to be expected.

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Title: “Caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the superior mesenteric artery for the treatment of right colon cancer: is it more in line with the principle of oncology?
Authors: Xiaojiang Yi
Hongming Li
Xinquan Lu
Jin Wan
Dechang Diao
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Colon Cancer
Colon Cancer
Published in: Surgical Endoscopy / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 0930-2794
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-019-07171-5

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“Caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the superior mesenteric artery for the treatment of right colon cancer: is it more in line with the principle of oncology?

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