Authors: Motoki Yano Takeshi Yamada Tatsuo Uchida Satoru Moriyama Hiroshi Haneda Katsuhiro Okuda Ryoichi Nakanishi
Publish Date: 2015/12/17
Volume: 46, Issue: 10, Pages: 1176-1180
Abstract
A retrospective multiinstitutional review was conducted by the Central Japan Lung Cancer Surgery Study Group We analyzed both Echelon™ EC and EndoGIA™ EGIA staplers in this study The stapling cartridges were classified into 3 colors according to the height of the ß loops green 20 mm gold 18 mm and blue 15 mmStapling of the pulmonary parenchyma was performed 9016 times The total number of complications related to stapling was 61 068 These complications were mainly caused by staplertissue thickness mismatch n = 30 492 and tissue fragility n = 27 443 The number and rate of complications of the different cartridges were 19 and 063 for EGIA blue 25 and 094 for EGIA green 1 and 0067 for EC gold 12 and 098 for EC blue and 4 and 064 for EC green respectively Complications associated with stapling using EC gold cartridges occurred less frequently than with the other cartridges p = 00022The authors wish to acknowledge the important contribution of members belonging to the Central Japan Lung Cancer Surgery Study Group Important collaborators were as follows Masahiro Hashizume Shinshu University School of Medicine Hisashi Iwata Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine Kikuo Shigemitsu Ogaki Municipal Hospital Hiroki Numanami Aichi Medical University Kondo Ryoichi NHO Matsumoto Medical Center Takuji Fujinaga Nagara Medical Center Yasuhisa Ohde Shizuoka Cancer Center Kohei Yokoi Nagoya University Katsutoshi Adachi Mie Chuo Medical Center Motoshi Takao Mie university Hospital Arimura Takaaki Nagano Municipal Hospital Ichiro Fukai Suzuka General Hospital Masakazu Sugaya Japan Labor Health Organization Chubu Rosai Hospital Shinichiro Ota Shizuoka General Hospital Toshiya Tokui ISE Red Cross Hospital Yushi Saito Toyota Memorial Hospital Kunio Narita Toyohashi municipal Hospital Koji Chihara Shizuoka City Shizuoka Hopspital Takaaki Matsuyama Daido Hospital Kazuhito Funai Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Masaaki Sano Nagoya Memorial Hospital Tsutomu Nishida Toyokawa City Hospital Hisanori Kani Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital Katsumi Nakamae Nagoya City West Medical Center Yasushi Matsushima Suzuka Kaisei Hospital and Ryo Kobayashi Yaizu City Hospital
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