Choice of insufflating gas influences on wound metastasis.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-1-2000
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic cancer surgery is limited by concerns about port-site metastasis. No study has definitively addressed the behavior and growth of tumor cells after the use of specific laparoscopic gases.
METHODS: In athymic rats, 10,000 colon cancer cells were injected intraperitoneally. The rats received either no pneumoperitoneum (pneumo) or pneumo (8 mmHg, 10 min) with carbon dioxide (CO(2)), nitrous oxide (N(2)O), or air. Two full-thickness incisions were made and closed in the upper abdomen of each animal. After 4 weeks, implants were identified grossly at necropsy, and invasiveness was scored according to penetration through the layers of the abdominal wall.
RESULTS: Rats receiving pneumo had more frequent implants (p < 0.01) with deeper penetration (p < 0.001) than rats not receiving pneumo. Implants were more common after air pneumo than after CO(2) (p < 0.05) or N(2)O (p = 0.07) pneumo, and were less penetrating after CO(2) pneumo than after air (p < 0.001) or N(2)O (p < 0.05) pneumo.
CONCLUSIONS: Carbon dioxide gas may limit the viability and invasiveness of free intraperitoneal tumor cells, as compared with air or N(2)O.
Volume
14
Issue
11
First Page
1047
Last Page
1049
ISSN
1432-2218
Published In/Presented At
Farrell, T. M., Metreveli, R. E., Johnson, A. B., Smith, C. D., & Hunter, J. G. (2000). Choice of insufflating gas influences on wound metastasis. Surgical endoscopy, 14(11), 1047–1049. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004640000219
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
11116417
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article