title: [Feasibility of lymphadenectomy with skeletonization in extended right hemicolectomy by hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the feasibility of lymphadenectomy with skeletonization in extended right hemicolectomy by hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS).
  
  
  METHODS
  From November 2001 to September 2004, 30 cases with right hemicolonic cancer were divided into two groups, and received laparoscopic or open extended right hemicolectomy plus lymphadenectomy with skeletonization. Clinical data of two groups were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean operative time were (214.0 +/- 16.5) min and (245.0 +/- 24.6) min (t=2.248, P< 0.05), the mean volumes of intraoperative bleeding (78.4 +/- 24.3) ml and (203.3 +/- 48.5) ml (t=4.927, P< 0.05), the mean time of anal aerofluxus (53.4 +/- 6.7) h and (67.3 +/- 9.7) h (t=2.530, P< 0.05), the mean postoperative hospital stay (11.5 +/- 1.11) d and (17.9 +/- 3.98) d (t=3.413, P< 0.05) respectively in laparoscopic and open operation groups. The mean numbers of N1, N2 and N3 lymph nodes cleared in laparoscopic group were (15.3 +/- 2.6), (5.6 +/- 1.6) and (4.3 +/- 2.2) respectively,while (16.2 +/- 3.3), (5.9 +/- 2.2) and (6.1 +/- 1.5) respectively in open operation group (all P > 0.05). The complication rates were 20.0% (3/15) and 33.3% (5/15) respectively in laparoscopic and open operation groups (chi(2)=0.0227, P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Extended right hemicolectomy plus lymphadenectomy with skeletonization can be perfectly performed by HALS.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350001, China. chipan.nol@163.com
authors.forename: Pan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Hui-ming
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Yan-chang
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zong-bing
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging