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ArticleArquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery2023

TOMOGRAPHIC SARCOPENIA PREDICTS ANASTOMOTIC LEAKS AND LONG-TERM SURVIVAL IN GASTRIC CANCER PATIENTS OPERATED WITH CURATIVE INTENT.

Manuel Figueroa-Giralt, Francisca Araya, Andrés Torrealba, José Weisz, Enrique Lanzarini, Maher Musleh, Juan Carlos Molina, Owen Korn, Italo Braghetto, Attila Csendes

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Article in Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. PALLIATIVE GASTRECTOMY VERSUS GASTRIC BYPASS FOR SYMPTOMATIC CLINICAL STAGE IV GASTRIC CANCER: A PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING ANALYSIS.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2024
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  4. RESULTS OF MECHANIC VERSUS MOTORIZED STAPLER USED IN GASTRIC SURGERY: PROSPECTIVE STUDY.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Manuel Figueroa-GiraltUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-5727
Francisca ArayaUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Radiology Department- Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7658-3199
Andrés TorrealbaUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3084-1858
José WeiszUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Radiology Department- Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8157-8263
Enrique LanzariniUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2817-3889
Maher MuslehUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4717-0336
Juan Carlos MolinaUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0078-7048
Owen KornUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7840-2534
Italo BraghettoUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2024-3029
Attila CsendesUniversidad de Chile, Clinical Hospital, Surgery Department - Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7524-8057
University of Chile · CL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe preoperative nutritional state has prognostic postoperative value. Tomographic density and area of psoas muscle are validated tools for assessing nutritional status. There are few reports assessing the utility of staging tomography in gastric cancer patients in this field.

aimsThis study aimed to determine the influence of sarcopenia, measured by a preoperative staging computed tomography scan, on postoperative morbimortality and long-term survival in patients operated on for gastric cancer with curative intent.

methodsThis retrospective study was conducted from 2007 to 2013. The definition of radiological sarcopenia was by measurement of cross-sectional area and density of psoas muscle at the L3 (third lumbar vertebra) level in an axial cut of an abdominopelvic computed tomography scan (in the selection without intravascular contrast media). The software used was OsirixX version 10.0.2, with the tool "propagate segmentation", and all muscle seen in the image was manually adjusted.

resultsWe included 70 patients, 77% men, with a mean cross-sectional in L3 of 16.6 cm2 (standard deviation+6.1) and mean density of psoas muscle in L3 of 36.1 mean muscle density (standard deviation+7.1). Advanced cancers were 86, 28.6% had signet-ring cells, 78.6% required a total gastrectomy, postoperative surgical morbidity and mortality were 22.8 and 2.8%, respectively, and overall 5-year long-term survival was 57.1%. In the multivariate analysis, cross-sectional area failed to predict surgical morbidity (p=0.4) and 5-year long-term survival (p=0.34), while density of psoas muscle was able to predict anastomotic fistulas (p=0.009; OR 0.86; 95%CI 0.76-0.96) and 5-year long-term survival (p=0.04; OR 2.9; 95%CI 1.04-8.15).

conclusionsTomographic diagnosis of sarcopenia from density of psoas muscle can predict anastomotic fistulas and long-term survival in gastric cancer patients treated with curative intent.

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SarcopeniaStomach NeoplasmsAnastomotic LeakFemaleHumansMalePrognosisRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsTomography, X-Ray Computed

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