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Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy is Feasible in Very Elderly Patients as Compared with Open Distal Gastrectomy.
Journal of Investigative Surgery : the Official Journal of the Academy of Surgical Research 2018 December
Laparoscopic gastrectomy was shown to be feasible even in elderly patients in many retrospective case-controlled studies. However, the definition of elderly differed among those studies, such as an age of 65, 70, or 75 years or older. This study was conducted to elucidate the advantages of laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (LDG) in very elderly (≥80 years) patients, and comprised 70 patients, 45 of whom underwent LDG and 25 underwent open distal gastrectomy (ODG) between 2004 and September 2016. LDG had significantly less estimated blood loss (p < .01), earlier flatus (p < .01), earlier food intake (p < .01), and shorter hospitalization (p < .01) as compared with ODG. No significant difference between LDG and ODG was found in the incidence of postoperative surgical complications (p = .40), although LDG tended to reduce overall and medical postoperative complications (p = .11 and .09, respectively). LDG might be a feasible, beneficial treatment with good short-term outcomes in very elderly patients with gastric cancer.
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