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- Title
Transhiatal oesophagectomy: A simple technique to carry out gastric or colonic conduit pull-up.
- Authors
Goh, A. H.; Park, K. G. M.
- Abstract
Following translatai oesophagectomy, delivery of the conduit into the posterior mediastinum and neck can potentially result in its devascularisation. A simple technique is described to protect the conduit during this phase of the operation. This procedure has now been performed in 56 consecutive cases (54 gastric and two colonie conduits). In one case (1.8%) the colonie conduit had to be removed due to venous engorgement. The anastomotic leak rate was 8/56 (14%), and 12 (21%) patients required oesophageat dilatation for a stricture. There were no cases of ischaemia of the conduit. This technique provides a means of safe delivery of the oesophageal replacement into the neck following transhiatal oesophagectomy.
- Subjects
ESOPHAGUS; CANCER patients; ISCHEMIA; COLECTOMY; BLOOD circulation disorders; OPERATIVE surgery
- Publication
Surgeon (Edinburgh University Press), 2007, Vol 5, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1479-666X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/S1479-666X(07)80112-0