Total esophagoplasty using a doubly vascularized free jejunal transplant: A last resort in two patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 801-804

  Germain, Michael A ^a   Hartl, Dana M ^b   Boutin, Pascal ^b   Marandas, Patrick ^b   Luboinski, Bernard ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOPLASTY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0037316920     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000041610.00399.E7     Document Type: Article

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