Minimally Invasive Staging Surgery for Cancer. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Staging laparoscopy (SL) is used to assess for radiographically occult metastatic disease and local resectability in selected patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. SL may avoid nontherapeutic laparotomy in patients with unresectable cancer and is associated with shorter length of hospital stay and time to receipt of systemic therapy compared with nontherapeutic laparotomy. With improvements in preoperative imaging, careful patient selection for SL is imperative. SL and peritoneal washings should be considered for patients with distal gastroesophageal and locally advanced gastric cancer before planned neoadjuvant chemotherapy or resection. SL should be considered in selected high-risk patients with hepatopancreatobiliary malignancies.

publication date

  • October 23, 2018

Research

keywords

  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures
  • Neoplasms
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85055145031

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.soc.2018.07.006

PubMed ID

  • 30414682

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 28

issue

  • 1