Patients undergoing oesophagectomy often have nutritional needs at the time of diagnosis and in the post-operative period. The aim of this article is to review the current literature and report on the author’s experience of routine feeding jejunostomy insertion following oesophagectomy. The records of forty-eight consecutive patients undergoing oesphagectomy under the author’s care were reviewe...

BACKGROUND Different methods of pancreatic stump closure after distal pancreatectomy (DP) have been described to decrease the incidence of pancreatic fistula (PF) which still represents one of the most common complications in pancreatic surgery. We retrospectively compared the pancreato-jejunostomy technique with the hand-sewn closure of the pancreatic stump after DP, and analyzed clinical outc...

BACKGROUND There are few studies in the literature that analyze jejunostomy complications and their associated factors. AIMS To describe the rate of complications and analyze the factors associated with their development in a tertiary reference center in Mexico. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out on patients that underwent Witzel jejunostomy within the time frame of January 2002 ...