Esophageal replacement with colon in children using either the intrathoracic or retrosternal route: An analysis of both surgical and long- term results

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 729-734

  Pompeo, Eugenio ^a   Coosemans, Willy ^b   De Leyn, Paul ^b   Denette, George ^b   Van Raemdonck, Dirk ^b   Lerut, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Caustic burns; Coloplasty; Esophageal atresia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON INTERPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS BURN; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLON; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030840895     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02384986     Document Type: Article

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