Sign Up

PREPRINT

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Portal placement
  • 3. Mobilize Right Colon
  • 4. Resection and Anastomosis
  • 5. Closure
  • 6. Discussion
cover-image
jkl keys enabled

Laparoscopic Right Colectomy with Ileocolic Anastomosis

31555 views

David W. Rattner, MD1; Joshua M. Harkins2
1Massachusetts General Hospital
2Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

Transcription

CHAPTER 1

I am Dr. Rattner. Today we're going to do a laparoscopic right colectomy on a middle-aged man who was found to have a large unresectable polyp in his ascending colon and incidentally also had a carcinoid tumor at the ileocecal valve. The way we're going to go about this is to position him so that his left arm is tucked in. Both myself and my assistant will stand on the patient's left side. We will place the four trocars in standard position.

And I - generally, we do this in the medial to lateral fashion, so we try to identify the ileocolic pedicle to suck it out at its - close to its origin, transect it, and then develop the retroperitoneal space, elevating the right colon in this mesentery off of the duodenum, and then take down the hepatic flexure. Mobilize lateral attachments is our last step. Once we have everything free, I usually do an extracorporeal anastomosis. I don't really find there's much difference between intra- and extracorporeal in terms of either function, pain, or anything else. We do give a tap block before making an incision. This really helps with the post-operative pain control. We use an E-Ras pathway post-op, and once all that’s done, we’ll exteriorize the fully mobilized and devascularized colon, construct a stapled anastomosis, put the bowel back into the abdomen, close the incision, and then we're done. Generally, the patient will go home in a couple of days afterwards.

CHAPTER 2

12 mm trocar please. Okie dokie. Okay, might want to switch to the - if you're getting all the footage, it should be fine. So let’s just take a look around. Okay, let’s have a knife please. 5 millimeter trocar - Steven put a trocar right here. And we’re going down there. Vertical incision. 5 millimeter trocar. Do you know if - that's perfect - if it doesn’t go through, we’ll put the 12 in. Leave that there for just a second. That's a good illustration. Okay, knife please, and a 12. Okay, knife please and the five. Put that right out here - maybe a little bit more central in here - probably fine in there somewhere. The room lights out or go green please.

CHAPTER 3

Switch places from a minute. Rotate the table all the way towards me. It’s actually unusually high for me to put that port as high as I put the left one, and then use that one to help. Now trying to see if you can get this. There's a terminal ileum right here. When it's - let's go over this way for just a second here, and let’s grab this and put this on a stretch here. You need to pull the - I’m not used to being the surgeon here - I’m used to a system of you guys. I’ll switch hands. Let’s get this up on a stretch. A little more - like that. Let's just get all the stuff out of the way down here. Open - it’s the duodenum right there - transverse colon right here. Let’s get this down and out of the way. Find ileum - make sure that’s free, which it is. Okay, we need to find stretch like that, so you need to re-grab see right here. Good. Now look down at 6 o'clock - more, more. That’s good down there. I’ll take a regular blank grasper. And open up the endo-GI white 45 please.

Okay so we're going to start by just taking the ileocolic vascular pedicle, open the peritoneum overlying it, identify the border of the duodenum.

Let’s get this up again. Just working up in here. Let go for just a sec. Stretch this out - there’s a little redundant right colon. Why don’t you grab over by the flexure. Here's the tattoo. Grab that - stretch that up towards the ceiling or - good just like that. That’s excellent. Let’s see if you can’t get this right colic on stretch here. Good here.

This is all retroperitoneal fat down here. Come in a little bit closer. Let’s keep coming up - freeing up the duodenum in here. Can I have a harmonic please?

Is that the - hollow grasper again please. Okay - this looks like a distal vessel - we’re going to have to take this or not. We want to save that. Where’s the tattoo? Tattoo is way over here, right? Yeah, it’s way back there, so we don’t have to take it out. That's nice, shiny mesentery right there, so all this little fun right here can go. This should all be mesentery. Famous last words. Okay, harmonica again.

And now I think we’ve reached the point where we can just come through. I've got a few little strands right there and this is a clear spot. So should be able to come through Steven right here right. Don't you think? I think. Just stay where you are - great exposure. Beautiful. Alright good. Move to the other side. Okay, this way. I’m going to give you this. Let’s trade. I am going to give you the harmonic, and you’re going to take down the hepatic flexure. Almost done.

So let’s see here - this is my hole. Right here - come in closer. See this clear stuff right up here?Go right through that. Hemostasis is next to godliness - in laparoscopic surgery anyways. So see this stuff right down in here? You’re gonna have to roll a little bit to - pull back and let me just see the duodenum for sure. Duodenum is there - okay, yes. And all this stuff underneath here has got to go.

Let’s take the lateral attachments first and then all we’ll be left with is the stuff underneath. You can go right underneath there, and then go to that clear area. Let’s stay a little bit further away from the colon wall - right there, good. All through all that stuff - perfect. Move this hand up. Back up a little bit. Let’s see what we are held on here. All this filmy stuff in there - yeah. Just work your way through that. Even all the way down to the bottom of the screen where the Xenon 300 is. It’s all - that’s all got to go. Yeah down at the bottom there’s another. We’ll get back to that in a minute. We just have to connect the dots from - and make sure we are in the same plane as the other dissection or we’ll be in two different planes. Let's finish bringing this up here, and then all we’ll have left is that stuff there. There's your appendix. You’re all the way down to the secum over there. Let me get that out of your way. That’ll be the innominate vein right underneath you. Close to the appendix okay. Close to the appendix.

Let’s switch to the other way now cause your angle’s bad. There’s the vessels. Get the colon back up here. Okay, switch. You’re going to take this now. Take this one here. I think. So you want to free up the terminal ileum right now and then come back up to the appendix, okay? If you get this stuff down here. So if you roll that over this way, you should start seeing the other dissection up in here, right? So those are going out also. You're just going to be just medial to that. Come back down this way for a minute - move this up - better. So there’s your ureter right there. So this is safe to take up here. Really nice illustrations of stuff. So we should finish up right in here. Famous last words, as we should be completely free now. So let’s just clean the scope for a second - get that smudgy spot off of it.

Alright, let’s lift this thing up and get it up in the air and make sure that there's nothing that’s still intact - we should be able to see completely through to the other side. Can I have that other bile grasper for just a second? So you want to grab up in here. I haven’t had to do one of these by myself in quite some time - it’s kinda fun. I almost forgot how to do it. Can you pull on this for me? That’s good. I think we got what we need here. Why don’t you go to the other side of the table.

CHAPTER 4

And let's do the tap lock on your side before we rotate. So let’s have the tap lock stock. Remember how to do this? Did we do these together? So this is the 12th rib - is right here, okay. So we go right up the tip of the 12th rib. Let me have a grasper please? Can you see okay? Tap your finger for me for a minute. Can I have the zero vicryl and the suture passer - get a blank grasper please.

So you can see the valve right there. Fat pad right there. Okay. Turn everything off except the laparoscopic stuff please. Skin knife please. There’s our pedicle. Do you have a couple of towels please - blue towels? It’s right here - feel it - it's right there. Clean off the mesentery - say up in here somewhere.

So this is where the carcinoid is - right here. So we can come maybe right to - here is fine. And you want to go radially back this way. There might be a node right there, so we’re going to go right to my fingers as the target. Preserve it - yep. Yeah, let's put that other thing underneath here - just lay that in there Steven. It will look nicer. I usually tie the muscles - share this with you. Schnip please. Let’s make a hole right here - see this little arcade vessel here. We’re just going to look at the arcade - you can see that there's a vessel - see this this loop is all coming up here, so you want to save that. Make a hole right in here. Okay, bovie. We’ll take this little vessel - this branch - this vessel - just clean this perineum off first - Make it much easier. Metz. Do you want 2-0 or 3-0? Either. 2-0 is fine.

Okay, take a harmonic or whatever - just keep going down right through here now. Come right to here, okay? We’ll tie that big vessel in there. K - schnip to me please. Tomorrow. Switch sis. So this is the stuff you want, right there, so we can finally go right through this with the harmonic.

Okay, alright, so that's good there. Now the colon side. We want something… Blood supply, which is not twisted. So all looks good through here. So should we clean off somewhere in here - let’s see. Let’s get this so that it's not all contorted - wants to go this way I think - I thinks. Or not. It goes like this. So here’s the tinea, coming along here, so that's perfect. And so here's the vessel right down here. That you want to leave. So I would say anywhere in here is going to be a-okay, so how's this going to lie. Just want to suture staple to staple. Why don’t we clean off right about here? Let’s clean that up - that will be where we’ll come across. I’ll need 100 times 2. K, let’s clean this up a little bit please - schnip please. I thought she had that open. I thought I saw that at the beginning of the case. Crystal, we just need the cartridges. Okay, schnip schnip. Nets please and a 2-0. Five. We’ll take 3 silk pops next please. So this can go - where did we clean up the the small bowel, right here. So want the two fork holes to match, or this is where we’re going to ultimately fire this transverse stapler, so it'll go from clear spot to clear spot.

So put a stitch there to line that up. Right here to the tinea. Good. Another stitch please. Snap these. Snap these. Times two. That’s good - that’s all we need. Okay, now let's make our fork holes. So this is where we're going to come across, so let's make the fork holes right about here, okay? That’s in - let’s do the same thing right about here. Pull right in - straight down. That’s in. One more. Yeah - that in. Let’s have the stapler now please. Take it apart and just put the big boy in the colon. You're definitely in - yeah, good. That’ll be fine - now looks lot better, good.

Let me just lift this up for a second. Make sure this is flat so you get a double layer there. I’m going to make sure there's nothing - get this fat out of this corner right there, and get the tinea going in the right direction - so it's not twisted. That looks pretty good to me. Matthew - not happy. Hold on. Yeah. That looks - that’s better. Let’s look at our staple line. Make sure nothing’s bleeding in there - he’s not bleeding at all. Okay. 3 Alices please. So this is going to go to this. She gets serosa - all layers are big bite, chunky bite. Good - another one. Should get this picked up to here. One more in the middle. And another load of the stapler. I thought we had this clean - where’s our clean off spot here? Is it back there? We had this all cleaned off. Everything get this side? Let’s divide all that - get that clean. Back in here - that’s bowel wall. Just don’t want to have any bleeding from anything else - just come right in though here. We should be fine there. So we can come straight across here and our staples in where - the staple line ends right about here. So we're in great shape - plenty of length. That's good there.

Okay now, we just want to check one more time here. Make sure we got all of everything out, which we do. Okay go ahead and fire. Let's have one more silk stitch please. Actually staples go all the way down there, so we have plenty of room. So stitch from right - see where that last staple is? Right underneath it. Come over to the side right there probably. That’s too far back - just right where the hole that you’re holding up is fine. Perfect.

Now we’re going to change our gloves. There’s bleeding right here on the corner. Coming right out of here. Just right there. Now that should take care of it - all the staples pretty well formed. Do you have a clip there by chance or no? Yeah, yeah. That's what I want. Let’s just put that on - right through there okay. Let’s see if I can just identify it fully. Good just straight - right at the tip of your clip. You probably got it. Mhmm yeah. Clip please. Well least we know the colon - good - blood supply is good huh. Fine. Yup. Loving it.

CHAPTER 5

Can I get the local now rather than -let me just do this now - I see it so well. Bonnie please. Bonnie. Can I have more please. Can I have a rich please? Such a nice operation. Are you going to take another one? I’ll just put a few stitches in just to get to the umba level - a little bit past it. Run one down from the top. Close the skin. Start on your side. And lock.

CHAPTER 6

Case is all finished. Everything went smoothly. Nothing particularly unusual about the anatomy or the procedure itself. Expect the patient to do really quite well. We were able to palpate the carcinoid tumor and the terminal ileum when we exteriorized it. I didn't see any lymphadenopathy, and we know the adenoma was at the site marked by India ink, which we saw well laparoscopically.