Current status and prevention of complications after laparoscopic radical gastrectomy / 中华胃肠外科杂志

ABSTRACT

It is the most important for surgeons to achieve surgical safety and oncological clearance in laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer. With the widespread adoption oflaparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer, surgeons make great efforts to achieve better safety andlower morbidity. Common abdominal complications (intraoperative and postoperative) after laparoscopic radical gastrectomy include bleeding, anastomotic leakage, anastomotic stenosis, iatrogenic organ injury, pancreatic leakage, etc. The causes and prevention of the complications related with laparoscopic radical gastrectomy was discussed in this article.