Publications by authors named "Yoshihito Sato"
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on improving the recognition of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, as RLN palsy is a common surgical complication.
- Researchers developed the AI model using 120 surgical videos and tested its performance against eight additional videos, measuring accuracy with the Intersection over Union (IoU) metric.
- The results showed that surgeons using the AI significantly outperformed those without it in both the early identification and recognition of the RLN, demonstrating a substantial increase in accuracy and efficiency during the procedure.
Locally advanced esophageal cancer often presents with dysphagia and can be complicated by aspiration pneumonia. Therefore, nutritional management is important to prevent pneumonia. Enteral nutrition via gastrostomies is common in esophageal cancer patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Esophagogastric bypass is performed for esophageal strictures. Mucus retention, known as mucocele, sometimes occurs at the stricture oral side of the remnant esophagus. It is often asymptomatic and is expected to be naturally decompressed, but it may cause respiratory failure depending on the case.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aim: To evaluate complications and risk factors associated with transumbilical incision as an organ removal site in laparoscopic pancreatectomy (LP).
Patients And Methods: In total, 52 patients who underwent LP between 2009 and 2017 were included in this study. The development of superficial surgical site infection (SSI) and transumbilical port-site incisional hernia was recorded.