ArticleSurgical case reports2022
Successful open radical gastrectomy for locally advanced or metastatic gastric cancer patients who suffered from coronavirus disease 2019 during preoperative chemotherapy: a report of three cases.
Article in Surgical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.
- IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC CANCER: A 3-YEAR ANALYSIS.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAccording to previous reports, in patients with preoperative coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, mortality is increased if they undergo surgery within 6 weeks of diagnosis. However, the optimal timing and preoperative examination for gastrectomy with a previous COVID-19 infection are still controversial. We experienced three cases in which patients successfully underwent open radical gastrectomy following preoperative chemotherapy even though they developed COVID-19 infection during the chemotherapy. CASE PRESENTATION: Case 1: A 58-year-old man with locally advanced gastric cancer caught COVID-19 during preoperative chemotherapy comprising 5-fluorouracil, calcium folate, oxaliplatin, and docetaxel. Although the patient had specific lung shadows indicating COVID-19 infection and deep venous thrombosis in the lower extremities, he underwent distal gastrectomy 10 weeks after the COVID-19 diagnosis. He had a good postoperative course. Case 2: A 56-year-old man with gastric cancer and lymph node and peritoneal metastasis caught COVID-19 during palliative chemotherapy comprising S-1, oxaliplatin, and trastuzumab. He underwent total gastrectomy as conversion surgery 8 weeks after COVID-19 infection. His postoperative course was uneventful. Case 3: A 55-year-old man with gastric cancer and paraaortic lymph node and liver metastases caught COVID-19 during S-1 and oxaliplatin treatment as neoadjuvant chemotherapy. He underwent distal gastrectomy, paraaortic lymph node sampling, and partial hepatectomy 8 weeks after COVID-19 infection although he had residual lung shadows and deep venous thrombosis in the lower extremities. He had an uneventful postoperative course.
conclusionsComputed tomography for preoperative evaluation was performed for all three patients and revealed that lung shadows remained post-COVID-19 infection. Despite this finding, the patients had good operative courses and were discharged as planned. Surgery after 7 weeks from the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection can be performed safely even when patients are post-chemotherapy and have residual lung findings and deep venous thrombosis. This report may contribute to the development of a consensus on performing safe gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer in patients previously infected with COVID-19.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.