Barbed sutures are widely used in various laparoscopic digestive surgeries. The purpose of this paper is to present our initial experience of laparoscopic percutaneous jejunostomy with unidirectional barbed sutures in esophageal cancer patients and compare it with our early cases using traditional transabdominal sutures.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00464-016-5285-z
Laparoscopic percutaneous jejunostomy with intracorporeal V-Loc jejunopexy in esophageal cancer