Introduction: Esophageal cancer is among the most common malignancies. Hospital mortality in the past decade reduced; but its morbidity is still high. Pulmonary complications are the most common complications after esophageal resection. In this study we examined the effect of steroids administration during surgery to reduce postoperative morbidity with a focus on respiratory complications.Mater...

Background: Gastro-bronchial fistulas are rare complication of esophagogastric anostomos operations. They occur either in the early or late postoperative period. They have different etiological factors according to time of development. They have different prognostic feature due to the reason which cause fistulas. Therefore, differential diagnosis of gastro-bronchial fistula should be urgently d...

Transhiatal oesophagectomy is an established technique for resection of tumours of the lower oesophagus and oesophagogastric junction. The authors describe a previously unreported serious complication associated with placement of a corrugated neck drain during transhiatal oesophagectomy. A 63 year old man was admitted for transhiatal oesophagectomy for resection of a lower third oesophageal tum...

Esophagectomy is accompanied with high morbidity, in up to 70% of cases as well as significant mortality. One of the complications is delayed gastric tube emptying, up to 30 %. Gastric drainage procedure like pyloroplasty may solve this problem. This procedure, although relatively safe, can lead to significant complications like suture line leaks, bile reflux, and late pyloric stricture. The ai...

Curative esophageal resection is usually performed using either a transthoracic (TT) or transhiatal (TH) approach. Forty patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent esophagectomies (24 TT and 16 TH), 12 patients who underwent surgery for gastric cancer, and 16 healthy individuals were enrolled in this study. Blood samples were taken from the patients, pre- and post-surgery. T...

We investigated whether lymph-directed substances injected into the mediastinal connective tissue of dogs reached the regional lymph nodes of the esophagus. In 46 dogs, 1.5 mL of cuttlefish particles or activated carbon particles containing 15 mg of bleomycin (CH-BLM) was injected at two sites: into the connective tissue between the trachea and the aorta via mediastinoscopy in 23 dogs (16 with ...