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SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 1482-1489Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-021-08433-x
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Endoscopic submucosal dissection; Gastric cancer; Remnant stomach; Distal gastrectomy; Risk-scoring system; Technical difficulty
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A risk-scoring model was developed and validated for predicting the technical difficulty of ESD for RGC after DG, which can contribute to a safer and more reliable performance of the procedure.
Background Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for remnant gastric cancer (RGC) after distal gastrectomy (DG) is considered technically challenging due to the narrow working space, and severe fibrosis and staples from the previous surgery. Technical difficulties of ESD for RGC after DG have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to develop and validate a risk-scoring system for assessing the technical difficulty of ESD for RGC after DG in a large multicenter cohort. Methods We investigated patients who underwent ESD for RGC after DG in 10 institutions between April 2008 and March 2018. A difficult case was defined as ESD lasting >= 120 min, involving piecemeal resection, or the occurrence of perforation during the procedure. A risk-scoring system for the technical difficulty of the procedure was developed based on multiple logistic regression analyses, and its performance was internally validated using bootstrapping. Results A total of 197 consecutive patients with 201 lesions were analyzed. There were 90 and 111 difficult and non-difficult cases, respectively. The scoring model consisted of four independent risk factors and points of risk scores were assigned for each as follows: tumor size > 20 mm: 2 points; anastomosis site: 2 points; suture line: 1 point; and non-expert endoscopist: 2 points. The C-statistics of the scoring system for technical difficulty was 0.72. Conclusions We developed a validated risk-scoring model for predicting the technical difficulty of ESD for RGC after DG that can contribute to its safer and more reliable performance.
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