Reasonable Time for Removal of the Nasogastric Tube after a Radical Gastrectomy
Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
;
: 809-816, 1997.
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in Korean
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ABSTRACT
The necessity for routine prophylactic nasogastric tube decompression after a gastrectomy is still in controversy. Several reports have indicated that nasogastric tube decompression is unnecessary and that the tube may even be harmful with serious discomforts. A D2 gastrectomy (which means a D2 lymph node dissection during gastric cancer surgery) for a gastric carcinoma is an extensively destructive procedure which takes a longer operation time than a conventional gastrectomy, destroys both sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers in the upper retroperitoneum, and may interfere with the gastrointestinal motility after the operation. Therefore, we have carried out a retrospective study with 206 gastrectomized gastric-cancer patients to evaluate the necessity of nasogastric tube decompression and whether the tube influences the gas-passing time, the morbidity, and mortality after operation.
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Main subject:
Stomach Neoplasms
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Retrospective Studies
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Mortality
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Decompression
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Gastrectomy
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Gastrointestinal Motility
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Lymph Node Excision
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Nerve Fibers
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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