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  • Title: Total gastrectomy and oesophagojejunostomy--a prospective randomized trial of hand-sutured versus mechanically stapled anastomoses.
    Author: Seufert RM, Schmidt-Matthiesen A, Beyer A.
    Journal: Br J Surg; 1990 Jan; 77(1):50-2. PubMed ID: 2405935.
    Abstract:
    Eighty patients undergoing total gastrectomy for malignant disease were entered into a prospective randomized study, comparing anastomoses constructed mechanically (staples) with hand-sewn (single layer Maxon) anastomoses. The groups were matched with respect to clinical features, medical risk factors and were staged for tumour. Only one anastomotic leak was observed after operation and this was in the group of stapled anastomoses. One patient died in each group (owing to cardiac infarction and multiorgan failure). Operating time, morbidity and hospital stay showed no significant differences between groups. These results indicate that hand-sewn and mechanically stapled oesophagojejunostomy anastomoses allow the same high standard of performance.
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