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Intraoperative view of the gastric tube cancer. The right gastroepiploic artery is marked using a band.
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The right gastric artery was preserved during gastric tube resection (Fig. 1).
Photograph taken after distal resection of the gastric tube involving the right gastroepiploic artery. The proximal and distal resection margins of the right gastroepiploic artery are indicated by the forceps.
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After proximal resection of the right gastroepiploic artery, the remnant vessel had visible retrograde pulsation, contrary to our expectation (Fig. 2).
Surgical specimen of the gastric tube cancer (scale in cm.).
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Based on postoperative histopathological examination of a surgical specimen, the pathological stage of the gastric tube tumor was pT3N1M0 (Fig. 3).