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08-11-2022 | Esophagojejunostomy | Research Communication
Minimally Invasive Hand-Sewn Barbed Anastomosis After Total and Near-Total Gastrectomy: Standardized Azagra’s Technique
Authors:
Beniamino Pascotto, Lucia González González, Salomone Di Saverio, Luca Arru, Martine Goergen, Juan Santiago Azagra
Published in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
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Issue 5/2023
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Excerpt
Our group with Azagra first described laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) for cancer in 1993.
1 Since then, many authors described the feasibility and safety of the LTG for early and recently for advanced gastric cancer.
2‐5 Two mainly reasons are behind the low implementation of LTG: adequate lymphadenectomy and esophagojejunostomy (EJ). …