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- Title
Thoracoscopic oesophagectomy for end-stage achalasia.
- Authors
Varshney, Vaibhav Kumar; Soni, Subhash Chandra; Kumari, Manju; Garg, Pawan Kumar; Puranik, Ashok
- Abstract
Achalasia cardia is an oesophageal motility disorder characterised by aperistalsis and failure of relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter. The management is predominantly palliative with focus on addressing the sphincter that involves either pneumatic dilatation or Heller myotomy which relieves dysphagia in the majority of the cases. End-stage achalasia (ESA) is characterised by failed myotomy, massively dilated and tortuous oesophagus with nutritional deterioration due to progressive dysphagia and vomiting. In these subgroups of patients, oesophagectomy may be the last resort. While oesophagectomy has been described for ESA before, thoracoscopic oesophagectomy has not been reported previously. Hereby, we report our experience of performing minimally invasive oesophagectomy (thoracoscopic) with the gastric pull-up.
- Subjects
CHEST endoscopic surgery; CHEST pain treatment; RIB abnormalities; SOFT tissue injuries; HISTOPATHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Minimal Access Surgery, 2018, Vol 14, Issue 3, p253
- ISSN
0972-9941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/jmas.JMAS_222_17