Optimization of the operative access for reduction of intraoperative trauma in surgical treatment of gastric cancer

: Results of treatment of 100 patients with gastric cancer who were subjected to gastrectomy with M. Z. Sigal's and A. I. Lisin's retractor are described. In 50 of them an additional glass of the authors' construction was used. A comparative analysis has shown that the additional glass gives the optimal spatial interrelations in the wound, reduces the length of the laparotomy incision, prevents postoperative complications and thus shortens the time of operative interventions, relieves the severity of the operative trauma, minimizes the untraoperative blood loss, decreases the number of postoperative complications.