title: Laparoscopic intragastric surgery for gastric leiomyoma.
abstract: Laparoscopic intragastric surgery (LIGS) was performed on a 63-year-old man with a gastric leiomyoma adjacent to the cardia. Because the tumor was about 5 cm in maximum diameter and showed ulceration, the possibility that the tumor was a leiomyosarcoma could not be ruled out preoperatively. Conventionally, major surgery has been performed on patients with a tumor located near the cardia, although it was not always malignant. Enucleation by LIGS enabled us to avoid excessive invasiveness and provided a favorable result. LIGS may be an appropriate new, minimally-invasive operation for gastric myogenic tumors and should be considered for such cases.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamada-Oka, Suita, 565, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kamiike
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamanishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nezu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Momiyama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*