The present randomized study is designed to compare the quality of life between the patients undergoing laparoscopy-assisted and totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer, and therefore to evaluate the superiority of totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy to laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy.
The primary endpoint of this trial is the early postoperative morbidity, that is defined as complications that occur within 30 days after surgery. Early postoperative morbidity is classified as follows: (1) wound morbidity (2) surgical site morbidity: anastomosis bleeding or leakage, duodenal stump leakage, postoperative bleeding, afferent loop or efferent loop obstruction, etc.; (3) lung morbidity: atelectasis, pleural effusion, empyema, pneumothorax, etc.; (4) intestinal obstruction morbidity (5) urinary tract morbidity (6) intra-abadominal abscess (7) postoperative pancreatitis (8) pancreatic fistula (9) intestinal fistula 10) others: lymphorrhea, diarrhea, etc. The secondary end point is the questionnaire score regarding QOL. This is assessed by the Korean versions of the EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) and STO22 questionnaires.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
443
Korea University Anam Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Postoperative 30-day morbidity rate
Check the morbidity rate :Wound, seroma, hematoma, wound infection, wound dehiscence, wound evisceration, Fluid collection/Abscess, Intraabdominal bleeding, Intraluminal bleeding, Postoperative ileus, Anastomosis stenosis, Anastomosis leakage, Pancreatitis or pancreatic fistula, Complication(Pulmonary, Urinary, Renal, Hepatic, Cardiac, Endocrine) etc.
Time frame: Postoperative 30-day
QOL measurement : EORTC QLQ-C30/STO22
EORTC QLQ-C30/STO22
Time frame: screening(pre op) / Postoperative 30-day,3-month,6-month,12-month
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