Segmental gastrectomy with radical lymph node dissection for early gastric cancer

Figure 1 Photographs during surgery. A: The right gastroepiploic vessels were skeletonized allowing excision of adjacent lymph nodes (LNs) (stations 6 and 4 d). The surrounding nerve plexuses were preserved; B: For dissection of the suprapyloric LNs (station 5), the right gastric artery was skeletonized and divided distally to the 3rd branch; C: Reconstruction was performed using hand-sewn end-to-end anastomosis. RGEV: Right gastroepiploic vessels; IPV: Infrapyloric vessels; RGV: Right gastric vessels.