Successful open radical gastrectomy for locally advanced or metastatic gastric cancer patients who suffered from coronavirus disease 2019 during preoperative chemotherapy: a report of three cases

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Summary of the patients’ characteristics in the three cases

Case	Age/sex	Preop CH	OP	IIS (days)	PN	Preop CT	%VC (pre-/post-infection: %)	FEV1% (pre-/post-infection: %)	DVT	Postop stay (days)
1	58/M	FLOT	ODG	73	Md	GGOs	120.2/102.4	66.8/65.3	+	9
2	56/M	SOX + HER	OTG	59	Md	GGOs	100.3/90.5	91.6/87.3	−	7
3	55/M	SOX	ODG + PH	61	Md	GGOs Faint shadows	116.8/98.2	77.3/78.4	+	8

Preop preoperative, CH chemotherapy, CT computed tomography, %VC percentage vital capacity, Fev1% forced expiratory volume in 1 s, DVT deep vein thrombosis, Postop postoperative, M male, FLOT 5-fluorouracil, calcium folate, oxaliplatin, and docetaxel, SOX S-1, oxaliplatin, HER herceptin, OP operative procedure, ODG open distal gastrectomy, OTG open total gastrectomy, PH partial hepatectomy, IIS interval between infection and surgery, PN pneumonia, Md moderate pneumonia, GGOs ground-glass opacities