BACKGROUND Considering the poor survival rate of patients with esophageal cancers, mainly due to the disease effects and surgical co morbidities, we have aimed to introduce a new method of Transhiatal Esophagectomy (THE) without mediastinal manipulation for lower third esophageal and cardial cancers. It has suggested that using this technique would decrease mentioned complications. METHODS In...

Background Adenocarcinomas at the cardia are biologically aggressive tumors with poor long-term survival following curative resection. For resectable adenocarcinoma of the cardia, mostly esophagus extended total gastrectomy or esophagus extended proximal gastric resection is performed; however, the surgical approach, transhiatal or transthoracic, is still under discussion. Postoperative morbidi...

Introducción. La ingesta de cáusticos continúa siendo un problema salud pública en los países vía desarrollo, por lo que a veces es necesario realizar reemplazo esofágico estos pacientes. Aún no existe una técnica estandarizada para este procedimiento. Caso clínico. Masculino 10 años con estenosis esofágica cáusticos, quien mejoró las dilataciones endoscópicas. Se realizó ascenso gástrico trans...

INTRODUCTION Pyloromyotomy is a pyloric drainage procedure routinely done during transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) to prevent delayed gastric emptying (GE) resulting from truncal vagotomy. However, controversy still surrounds the need for pyloric drainage following esophageal substitution with gastric conduit after esophagectomy. The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness of pyloromyot...