Publications by authors named "Yusuke Sakura"
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- The study compares lymph node spread patterns in young (≤45 years) and elderly (≥80 years) patients with stage III colon cancer who underwent extensive lymphadenectomy in Japan between 1998 and 2018.
- Results showed that younger patients had significantly more lymph nodes harvested and a higher rate of positive central lymph nodes compared to elderly patients.
- The findings suggest that younger patients face a higher risk of central lymph node invasion, which is linked to poorer recurrence-free survival outcomes, indicating a potentially more aggressive form of the disease.
We have developed a novel technique for safe and precise lymph-node dissection during robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer using monopolar curved scissors with soft coagulation. This technique is called the soft coagulation scissors technique. The technical details of this technique are as follows: a long bipolar grasper in the first arm and monopolar curved scissors in the third arm are primarily used for lymph-node dissection, maximizing the use of the robotic arm articulation.
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