The Superiority of the Left Subcostal Incision Compared to Mid-line Incisions in Surgery for Morbid Obesity |
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Authors: | Kenneth B Jones Jr MD FACS |
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Affiliation: | (1) T. E. Schumpert Memorial Medical Center and Physicians and Surgeons Hospital, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA |
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Abstract: | We describe a 13-year experience using a left subcostal incision in performing gastroplasties and Roux-en-Y gastric bypasses (RYGBP) in morbidly obese patients. We have also used it successfully in the general population in several other types of surgical procedures, including Nissen fundoplications in adults and infants, gastrectomies, truncal vagotomies, pyloroplasties, jejunoileal bypass reversals, and elective splenectomies. Over 200 cholecystectomies have been carried out through this incision as additional procedures with relative ease, not requiring any further extension of the incision. There were no hernias in a group of 1067 primary gastroplasty and RYGBP patients, and the wound infection rate has been quite low, apparently because of the incision's distance from the potentially contaminated umbillicus. We feel that the use of this incision further simplifies and therefore adds a safety factor not seen with the standard vertical incision in this group of surgical patients. |
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Keywords: | Fascial staples incisional hernia left subcostal incision morbid obesity ‘ upper-hand’ retractor |
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