The short esophagus: Pathophysiology, incidence, presentation, and treatment in the era of laparoscopic antireflux surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 232, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 630-640

  Horvath, Karen D ^a   Swanstrom, Lee L ^b   Jobe, Blair A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Legacy Portland Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FIBROSIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROPLASTY; HERNIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT ESOPHAGUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOPLASTY; ESOPHAGUS; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY;

EID: 0033752681     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200011000-00003     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease
2. Reflux stricture and short esophagus
3. Gastroplasty and Belsey hiatus hernia repair: An operation for the management of peptic stricture with acquired short esophagus
4. Long-term results of the Mark IV operation for hiatal hernia and analyses of recurrences and their treatment
5. Surgical treatment of hiatal hernias by fundoplication and gastropexy (Nissen repair)
6. Surgical management of acquired short esophagus with dilatable peptic stricture
7. An operation for hiatus hernia with short esophagus
8. Laparoscopic reoperation following failed antireflux surgery
9. Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication is an effective treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease
10. Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication: Technique and preliminary results
11. Clinical and physiologic comparison of laparoscopic and open Nissen fundoplication
12. Dysphagia after laparoscopic antireflux surgery: The impact of operative technique
13. The modified Collis-Nissen operation for control of gastroesophageal reflux
14. An analysis of operations for gastroesophageal reflux disease
15. The lessons of failed antireflux repairs
16. Reoperation following failed fundoplication
17. Reoperation after failed antireflux surgery: Review of 101 cases
18. Laparoscopic reoperations after failed and complicated antireflux operations
19. Postoperative function following laparoscopic Collis gastroplasty for the shortened esophagus
20. Surgical treatment after the failed antireflux operation
21. The relationship of esophageal length to hiatal hernia in gastroesophageal reflux disease
22. Laparoscopic partial fundoplication vs. laparoscopic Nissen-Rossetti fundoplication: Short-term results of 231 cases
23. Simplified management of reflux esophagitis with stricture
24. The myth of the short esophagus
25. Gastroplasty and fundoplication for complex reflux problems: Long-term results
26. A tailored approach to antireflux surgery
27. Fundoplication for reflux esophagitis: Misadventures with the operation of choice
28. Laparoscopic Collis gastroplasty is the treatment of choice for the shortened esophagus
29. Laparoscopic Collis gastroplasty and Nissen fundoplication: A new technique for the management of esophageal foreshortening
30. Peptic esophagitis, stricture and short esophagus
31. Intrathoracic fundoplication for reflux stricture associated with short esophagus
32. Supradiaphragmatic correction of esophageal reflux strictures
33. Nissen fundoplication without crural repair
34. Management of complications of fundoplication and Barrett's esophagus
35. Complications of intrathoracic Nissen fundoplication
36. Obstructive complications of the Nissen fundoplication
37. Intrathoracic fundoplication for shortened esophagus. Treacherous solution to a challenging problem
38. Postoperative diaphragmatic herniation following transthoracic fundoplication
39. Treatment of advanced gastroesophageal reflux disease with Collis gastroplasty and Belsey partial fundoplication
40. Circular myotomy and Belsey repair for acquired shortening of the oesophagus
41. Collis gastroplasty: Origin and evolution
42. Gastropexy and 'fundoplication' in surgical treatment of hiatal hernia
43. Surgical management of esophageal reflux and hiatus hernia
44. Hiatal hernia with and without esophageal stricture: Experience with Belsey Mark IV repair
45. Treatment of peptic esophageal stricture with combined fundic patch-fundoplication
46. Long-term follow-up of peptic strictures managed by dilatation, modified Collis gastroplasty and Belsey hiatus hernia repair
47. Complications and failings of the combined Collis-Belsey operation
48. Reflux control following gastroplasty
49. Total fundoplication gastroplasty (Nissen gastroplasty): Five-year review
50. The combined Collis-Nissen operation: Early assessment of reflux control
51. Combined Collis-Nissen reconstruction of the esophagogastric junction
52. Combined Collis-Nissen reconstruction of the esophagogastric junction
53. Continued assessment of the combined Collis-Nissen operation
54. The combined Collis-Nissen operation for esophageal reflux strictures
55. Collis-Nissen gastroplasty fundoplication for complicated gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
56. Abdominal approach to the Collis gastroplasty and Nissen fundoplication
57. Stapled, uncut gastroplasty for hiatal hernia: 12-year follow-up
58. Uncut Collis-Nissen gastroplasty
59. The uncut Collis-Nissen fundoplication: Results for 79 consecutively treated high-risk children
60. Laparoscopic total esophagectomy
61. Endoscopic esophageal lengthening procedures for the shortened esophagus: The combined laparoscopic/thoracoscopic Collis gastroplasty