Amila Cizmic, Ivan Romic, Andrea Balla, Nicolò Barabino, Gabriele Anania, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Branko Bakula, Carmen Balagué, Felix Berlth, Vasile Bintintan, Umberto Bracale, Jan-Hendrik Egberts, Hans F Fuchs, Suzanne S Gisbertz, Ines Gockel, Peter Grimminger, Richard van Hillegersberg, Noriyuki Inaki, Arul Immanuel, Daniel Korr, Philipp Lingohr, Pietro Mascagni, Nathaniel Melling, Marco Milone, Yoav Mintz, Salvador Morales-Conde, Yusef Moulla, Beat P Müller-Stich, Kiyokazu Nakajima, Magnus Nilsson, Matthias Reeh, Pierpaolo Sileri, Eduardo M Targarona, Yuki Ushimaru, Young-Woo Kim, Sheraz Markar, Felix Nickel, Anuja T Mitra
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive total gastrectomy (MITG) is a mainstay for curative treatment of patients with gastric cancer. To define and standardize optimal surgical techniques and further improve clinical outcomes through the enhanced MITG surgical quality, there must be consensus on the key technical steps of lymphadenectomy and anastomosis creation, which is currently lacking. This study aimed to determine an expert consensus from an international panel regarding the technical aspects of the performance of MITG for oncological indications using the Delphi method...
December 26, 2023: Surgical Endoscopy