The use of Triple Stapling Technique with Automatic Stapling Device for Laparoscopic Sigmoidectomy -A Case Report-

Kazuya Kato, Minoru Matsuda, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Toshihide Arai, Kazuhiko Onodera, Shinichi Kasai, Michio Mito, Tastuo Kobayashi*, Takashige Saito**

Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College
*Kobayashi Hospital
**Higashiasahikawa Hospital

The feasibility of performing a sigmoidectomy with laparoscopic technique using a triple stapling technique (TST) was demonstrated in the current study. A 55-year-old man had a sigmoidal colon polyp, which was pathologically diagnosed as group 4. Sigmoidectomy was performed with a laparoscopic technique using an endopath lenear cutter 60^®. The laparoscopic technique for anastomosing the procedure to be performed completely within the abdominal cavity using a curved detactable head (CDH)^®. The procedure appears to be safe, and there is no compromise in the standard sigmoidectomy.

Key words
laparoscopic sigmoidectomy, triple stapling technique, automatic stapling device

Reprint requests
Kazuya Kato Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College
4-5 Nishi-Kagura, Asahikawa, 078 JAPAN

Accepted
November 1, 1993

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