Laparoscopic intragastric surgery for gastric leiomyoma
- 19 March 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in Surgical Endoscopy
- Vol. 11 (3) , 287-289
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s004649900347
Abstract
Laparoscopic intragastric surgery (LIGS) was performed on a 63-year-old man with a gastric leiomyoma adjacent to the cardia. Because the tumor was about 5 cm in maximum diameter and showed ulceration, the possibility that the tumor was a leiomyosarcoma could not be ruled out preoperatively. Conventionally, major surgery has been performed on patients with a tumor located near the cardia, although it was not always malignant. Enucleation by LIGS enabled us to avoid excessive invasiveness and provided a favorable result. LIGS may be an appropriate new, minimally-invasive operation for gastric myogenic tumors and should be considered for such cases.Keywords
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