T-Tube Management of a Major Leakage of the Cervical Esophagogastrostomy after Subtotal Esophagectomy: Report of Three Cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 928-931

  Ichikura, Takashi ^a   Kawarabayashi, Nobuaki ^a   Ishikawa, Keiichi ^a   Ikuta, Shin Ich ^a   Mochizuki, Hidetaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anastomotic leakage; Esophageal substitute; Esophagogastrostomy; Gastric tube; T tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS PROSTHESIS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FISTULA; GASTROSTOMY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; MALE; NECROSIS; STENT; STOMACH TUBE; SUCTION DRAINAGE; T TUBE; THORAX DRAINAGE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PERISTALSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0347416938     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2605-4     Document Type: Article

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