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Learning curve of laparoscopic and robotic total gastrectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effect of Minimally Invasive versus Open Distal Gastrectomy on Long-Term Survival in Patients with Gastric Cancer: Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis.Annals of surgical oncology · 2025Pooled it
- The need for adaptive laparoscopic training, depending on conventional and robotic procedures. Evidence from an experimental profiling study.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Impact of artificial intelligence intervention on awareness of anatomical landmarks in laparoscopic gastrectomy: An exploratory study.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Clinical advantages of robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer over conventional laparoscopic approach: a retrospective cohort study using a nationwide registry database in Japan.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2026Article
- The Initiation of Laparoscopic Gastric Surgery in an Academic Hospital in Greece: Early Results.Cureus · 2026Article
- Minimally Invasive Surgery in Gastric Cancer.Cancers · 2026Review
- Evaluating surgeons' stress using heart rate variability during minimally invasive surgery for gastric cancer: a single-center prospective cohort study.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026Article
- Unraveling the risks: A systematic review of factors leading to esophagojejunal dehiscence after gastric cancer surgery.Surgery open science · 2026Review
- Safety and short-term oncological outcomes of multimodal modified overlap esophagojejunostomy in total laparoscopic total gastrectomy for elderly patients.American journal of translational research · 2026Article
- Real-time multicenter semantic segmentation for laparoscopic gastrectomy: development, external validation and operating room deployment of an AI navigation system.Military Medical Research · 2026Article
- Short- and long-term outcomes of totally robotic versus robotic-assisted total gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer: a single-center retrospective study.World journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Enhanced recovery and reduced opioid requirements following robot-assisted minimally invasive gastrectomy: a retrospective cohort study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Article
- Risk of Open Conversion During Robotic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Optimizing Patient Selection.Journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
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- Efficacy of robot-assisted double-flap techniques with refinements to minimize anastomosis-related complications after proximal gastrectomy.Surgery today · 2025Article
- Minimally invasive lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer: Could the robotic approach provide any benefits than laparoscopy?World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Review
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- Proficiency in bariatric surgery may shorten the learning curve for minimally-invasive D2 gastrectomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeMinimally-invasive total gastrectomy (MITG) is associated with lower morbidity in comparison to open total gastrectomy but requires a learning curve (LC). We aimed to perform a pooled analysis of the number of cases required to surmount the LC (N
methodsA systematic review of PubMed, Embase, Scopus and the Cochrane Library from inception until August 2022 was performed for studies reporting the LC in laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) and/or robotic total gastrectomy (RTG). Poisson mean (95% confidence interval [CI]) was used to determine the N
resultsThere were 12 articles with 18 data sets: 12 data sets (n = 1202 patients) on LTG and 6 data sets (n = 318 patients) on RTG. The majority of studies were conducted in East Asia (94.4%). The majority of the data sets (n = 12/18, 66.7%) used non-arbitrary analyses. The N
conclusionsThe LC for RTG was significantly shorter for LTG. However existing studies are heterogeneous.
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