Gregory C Dann, Malcolm H Squires, Lauren M Postlewait, David A Kooby, George A Poultsides, Sharon M Weber, Mark Bloomston, Ryan C Fields, Timothy M Pawlik, Konstantinos I Votanopoulos, Carl R Schmidt, Aslam Ejaz, Alexandra W Acher, David J Worhunsky, Neil Saunders, Douglas S Swords, Linda X Jin, Clifford S Cho, Emily R Winslow, Maria C Russell, Charles A Staley, Shishir K Maithel, Kenneth Cardona
BACKGROUND: The effect of routine drainage after abdominal surgery with enteric anastomoses is controversial. In particular, the role of peritoneal drain (PD) placement after total gastrectomy for adenocarcinoma is not well established. METHODS: Patients who underwent total gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC) at seven institutions from the US Gastric Cancer Collaborative, from 2000 to 2012, were identified. The association of PD placement with postoperative outcomes was analyzed...
December 2015: Annals of Surgical Oncology