Effects on the pouch of different digestive tract reconstruction modes assessed by radionuclide scintigraphy

Table 1 Patient clinical data

Clinical data	Reconstruction mode
	Proximal gastrectomy (n = 10)	P type (n = 11)	Dual-Braun (n = 13)
Gender
Male	7	8	8
Female	3	3	5
mean age (yr)	61	57	59
General type
Borrmann I	0	0	0
Borrmann II	6	4	4
Borrmann III	4	7	9
Borrmann IV	0	0	0
Staging
Early cancer	1	0	2
IB	2	2	3
II	4	4	3
IIIA	2	4	4
IIIB	1	1	1

Table 2 Emptying times of the three kinds of reconstruction (mean ± SD)

Reconstruction mode	n	Time after operation (mo)2	Raw data T1/2 (min)	Linear fit T1/2 (min)	P1
Proximal gastrectomy	10	16	35.16 ± 13.51	69.86 ± 11.71	0.706a
P type reconstruction	11	22	29.66 ± 6.07	67.33 ± 8.75	0.002b
Dual-Braun reconstruction	13	24	52.66 ± 10.33	65.77 ± 11.43	0.001c

¹SPSS 11.0 soft ware;

²There were no statistical differences between groups regarding operation time.

^aProximal gastrectomy vs P type;

^bProximal gastrectomy vs Dual-Braun reconstruction;

^cP type vs Dual-Braun reconstruction.