PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - KODAI TOMIOKA AU - MASAHIKO MURAKAMI AU - TAKESHI AOKI AU - KAZUHIRO MATSUDA AU - TOMOTAKE KOIZUMI AU - TOMOKAZU KUSANO AU - KOJI NOGAKI AU - YOSHIHIKO TASHIRO AU - YUSUKE WADA AU - TOMOKI HAKOZAKI AU - HIDEKI SHIBATA AU - TAKAHITO HIRAI AU - TATSUYA YAMAZAKI AU - KAZUHIKO SAITO AU - YOSHIHITO SATO AU - KIYOTAKA MOCHIZUKI AU - AKIRA FUJIMORI AU - YUTA ENAMI TI - Use of Transumbilical Incision as an Organ Removal Site in Laparoscopic Pancreatectomy AID - 10.21873/anticanres.14995 DP - 2021 Apr 01 TA - Anticancer Research PG - 2197--2201 VI - 41 IP - 4 4099 - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/41/4/2197.short 4100 - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/41/4/2197.full SO - Anticancer Res2021 Apr 01; 41 AB - Background/Aim: To evaluate complications and risk factors associated with transumbilical incision as an organ removal site in laparoscopic pancreatectomy (LP). Patients and Methods: In total, 52 patients who underwent LP between 2009 and 2017 were included in this study. The development of superficial surgical site infection (SSI) and transumbilical port-site incisional hernia was recorded. Results: None of the patients had SSI. However, three (5.77%) presented with transumbilical incisional hernia. No variables were significantly associated with the risk of transumbilical incisional hernia. Conclusion: No evident risk factors correlated with hernia formation. Hence, incisional hernia might have occurred at a certain probability. In some cases, it was caused by technical problems. However, the use of transumbilical incision as an organ removal site was feasible, and a new incision for organ removal alone was not required.