Aisu Y, Yasukawa D, Kimura Y, Hori T. Laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery for gastric tumors: Perspective for actual practice and oncological benefits. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2018; 10(11): 381-397 [PMID: 30487950 DOI: 10.4251/wjgo.v10.i11.381]
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Tomohide Hori, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Shiga General Hospital, 5-4-30 Moriyama, Moriyama 524-8524, Shiga, Japan. horitomo55office@yahoo.co.jp
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Oncology
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World J Gastrointest Oncol. Nov 15, 2018; 10(11): 381-397 Published online Nov 15, 2018. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v10.i11.381
Laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery for gastric tumors: Perspective for actual practice and oncological benefits
Yuki Aisu, Daiki Yasukawa, Yusuke Kimura, Tomohide Hori
Yuki Aisu, Department of Digestive Surgery, Tenri Hospital, Tenri 632-8552, Nara, Japan
Daiki Yasukawa, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu 520-2192, Japan
Yusuke Kimura, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
Tomohide Hori, Department of Surgery, Shiga General Hospital, Moriyama 524-8524, Shiga, Japan
Author contributions: Aisu Y and Hori H wrote this review and contributed equally to this work; Aisu Y originally drew all schemas; all authors assessed previous papers and provided academic opinions. Aisu Y, Yasukawa D and Hori T performed the laparoscopic surgery; Hori T supervised this review; all authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No author has potential conflicts of interest.
Open-Access: This is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Tomohide Hori, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Shiga General Hospital, 5-4-30 Moriyama, Moriyama 524-8524, Shiga, Japan. horitomo55office@yahoo.co.jp
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Received: August 22, 2018 Peer-review started: August 22, 2018 First decision: August 31, 2018 Revised: September 15, 2018 Accepted: October 11, 2018 Article in press: October 12, 2018 Published online: November 15, 2018
Core Tip
Core tip: Laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery (LECS) was first described as a treatment of gastric submucosal tumors in 2008, although a similar concept had been developed before that time. Thereafter, many researchers described LECS as a feasible technique for gastric resection, regardless of tumor location. LECS is a novel procedure that minimizes invasive damage to patients and preserves physiologic function of the residual stomach while securing oncological benefit. Currently, many physicians can fully utilize the advantages of LECS for gastric submucosal tumors located even at the esophagogastric junction by avoiding conventional total gastrectomy or proximal gastrectomy. This technique requires close cooperation between skilled surgeons and experienced endoscopists. Therefore, many tips and pitfalls should be discussed to accelerate this collaboration during LECS. We hope that the herein-described tips will benefit laparoscopic surgeons and interventional endoscopists who are interested in LECS.
