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World J Gastrointest Surg. Oct 27, 2026; 18(10): 123136
Published online Oct 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.123136
Published online Oct 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.123136
Modified abdominal wall retractor for total laparoscopic esophagojejunostomy in gastric cancer
Bin Song, Shuai Wang, Qing-Guo Du, Zhi-Jun Mao, Department of General Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an 710068, Shaanxi Province, China
Shuai Wang, Yan’an Medical College, Yan’an University, Yan’an 716000, Shaanxi Province, China
Fei Xue, Yun-Hua Wu, Second Department of General Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an 710068, Shaanxi Province, China
Co-first authors: Bin Song and Shuai Wang.
Co-corresponding authors: Zhi-Jun Mao and Yun-Hua Wu.
Author contributions: Song B and Wang S contributed equally to this work, thus qualified as the co-first authors of the paper; Song B, Wang S, Mao ZJ, Wu YH contributed to ceptualization; Song B, Wang S, Du QG contributed to methodology; Fei Xue and Du QG contributed to data curation formal analysis; Du QG and Xue F contributed to writing-original draft; Mao ZJ and Wu YH played important and indispensable roles in the manuscript preparation as the co-corresponding authors; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
AI contribution statement: No AI tools were used in the preparation of this manuscript.
Supported by Shaanxi Province Key Research and Development Program, No. 2024SF-YBXM-205 and No. 2024SF-YBXM-122.
Institutional review board statement: This retrospective study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital [approval No. (2024) R164] on July 16, 2024, and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent statement: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Data sharing statement: The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Corresponding author: Yun-Hua Wu, The Second Department of General Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, No. 256 Friendship West Road, Xi’an 710068, Shaanxi Province, China. wuyunhua199011@163.com
Received: May 9, 2026
Revised: June 16, 2026
Accepted: August 31, 2026
Published online: October 27, 2026
Processing time: 156 Days and 4.1 Hours
Revised: June 16, 2026
Accepted: August 31, 2026
Published online: October 27, 2026
Processing time: 156 Days and 4.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: We designed a customized abdominal wall retractor to facilitate totally intracorporeal esophagojejunostomy after total gastrectomy without costly dedicated stapling accessories. Compared with open anastomosis, this laparoscopic procedure shortens surgical incision while maintaining comparable perioperative safety, and novice surgeons can become proficient with this operative skill after about 11 clinical cases.