A Short Term Outcome of Laparoscopic Hand Sewn and Stapled Gastrojejunostomy in Gastric Outlet Obstruction - An Observational Study

Gastric Outlet Obstruction is a disease condition, where there is inability of gastric contents to go beyond the proximal duodenum. The major cause is known to be malignancy, especially in the developing world. Palliative treatment is important and required for patients with unrestable p rimary gastric outlet tumours or even with metastatic lesions. We took up laparoscopic gastrojejunostomy as a study to observe the results of laparoscopic hand sewn and laparoscopic stapled anastomosis with reference to operative time, anastomosis time, re turn of bowel sounds, post operative complications and total hospital stay.