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Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy With Versus Without Bursectomy

Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy With Bursectomy in a Left Outside Bursa Omentalis Approach Versus Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy Without Bursectomy for Advanced Posterior Gastric Wall Cancer: a Randomized Controlled Study

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03117283
Enrollment
56
Registered
2017-04-17
Start date
2017-03-28
Completion date
2022-04-01
Last updated
2017-04-17

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

A Left Outside Bursa Omentalis Approach, Laparoscopic Bursectomy, Laparoscopic Gastrectomy

Keywords

Laparoscopic surgery, Radical total gastrectomy, Bursectomy, Advanced posterior gastric wall cancer

Brief summary

Bursectomy is widely performed in open surgery for advanced gastric cancer in East Asia. However laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy with complete bursectomy is difficult and rare performed. Herein, we conduct a single-centre randomized controlled trial to explore the safety and feasibility of totally laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach for achieving complete bursectomy.

Detailed description

Although, the clinical value of bursectomy in addition to D2 lymphadenectomy in radical gastrectomy for curable gastric cancer is controversial. Data analysis of the nationwide registry of gastric cancer in Japanese revealed that 10.7% of patients with subserosal and serosal positive cancer developed peritoneal recurrence after radical gastrectomy. Some trials, although, indicated a biologically reasonable but statistically non-significant advantage to bursectomy. But for patients with posterior gastric wall trans-serosal disease, such micrometastases can constitute the seeds of later recurrence. The non-bursectomy showed worse overall survival. Early removal of micrometastases and cancer cells deposited might prove beneficial and a possible therapeutic effect. In any case, the authors reasonably concluded that bursectomy should not be abandoned at this time. The hypothesis that it might actually enhance survival should be entertained. In the past decades, Japanese, Korea, Chinese and even Turkey, surgeons have continued to performed bursectomy and lymph nodes dissection as the conventional open procedures for advanced gastric cancer. Lymph nodes dissection and bursectomy is routinely regarded as a standard surgical procedure during radical open gastrectomy for tumors penetrating the serosa of the posterior gastric wall. Complete bursectomy and lymphadenectomy in open radical gastrectomy may represents a formidable challenge to the best of surgeons and its influences on operative morbidity and mortality, but it can be also safely performed in high volume experience centers or by experienced surgeons with mortality rate of \<1% and morbidity rates around 14%. Generally speaking, bursectomy is incomplete without total gastrectomy. The concept of bursectomy mentioned above is always almost confined to removal of the local anterior membrane of the transverse mesocolon and pancreatic capsule and to open radical gastrectomy. With the generalization and development of laparoscopic technology, laparoscopic surgery for advanced gastric cancer as clinical study has extensively performed in Asia.The investigators take the lead in carrying out laparoscopic bursectomy and D2 radical gastrectomy by. Herein, the investigators conduct a single-centre randomized controlled trial to explore the safety and feasibility of totally laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach for achieving complete bursectomy.

Interventions

PROCEDURELaparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy with bursectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach

Patients with advanced posterior gastric wall cancer including in the laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) with bursectomy group will undergo laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy with bursectomy using a left outside bursa omentalis approach.

PROCEDURELaparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy without bursectomy

Patients who are included in the laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) without bursectomy group will undergo laparoscopic D2 radical total gastrectomy without bursectomy in a conventional manner.

Sponsors

Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Primary gastric adenocarcinoma diagnosed pathologically by endoscopic biopsy * Tumor located in the posterior wall of upper and middle third stomach estimated by endoscopy and CT scan * Informed consent * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG): 0 ot 1 * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score: Ⅰto Ⅲ

Exclusion criteria

* Pregnancy or female in suckling period * Contraindication to general anesthesia (severe cardiac and/or pulmonary disease) * Severe mental disease * Emergency operation due to complication (bleeding, perforation or obstruction) caused by primary tumor

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Early morbidity30 daysThe early morbidity is defined as the adverse event observed during peri-operative time.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
3-year survival3 years3-year disease free survival rate
5-year survival5 years5-year overall survival rate
Estimated blood lossIntraoperativeThe mean estimated blood loss
First flatus30 daysThe time to first flatus
First ambulation30 daysThe time to first ambulation
Hospital stay30 daysPostoperative hospital stay
Operative timeIntraoperativeThe mean operative time of the procedures
Lymph node14 daysThis outcome consists of the number of total lymph nodes harvested and the number of lymph nodes in the wall of bursa omentalis
First liquid diet30 daysThe time to liquid diet

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactWei Wang, M.D., PH.D.
wangwei16400@163.com+86-13922255515

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026