Juniper Publishers- Surgery| Use of a Cheap Bag for Specimen Retrieval during Diagnostic Laparoscopy

Use of a Cheap Bag for Specimen Retrieval during Diagnostic Laparoscopy

Authored by Giovanni D Tebala Diagnostic laparoscopy with biopsy is a useful tool in the diagnosis and staging of abdominal conditions, such as gastric cancer [1,2]. The biopsied tissue should be retrieved and sent to the laboratory in the best conditions, avoiding excessive crushing and lymph node biopsy should provide the whole intact node. To reduce pain and wall complications it would be preferable that the operative ports are 5mm or less. Unfortunately, retrieving a tissue specimen through a small port makes it to be crushed and often not suitable to be analyzed. Moreover, no 5mm laparoscopic bag is commercially available and there is the risk of tumour seeding if the tissue is extracted without a bag. One should use a 10mm trocar to retrieve the specimen in a bag, but this increases invasiveness and costs of the operation. Surgical gloves have been used to retrieve even huge specimens in laparoscopic surgery.

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