Transient bloodletting of the short gastric vein in the reconstructed gastric tube improves gastric microcirculation during esophagectomy

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 780-784

  Kono, Koji ^a   Sugai, Hidemitsu ^a   Omata, Hideo ^a   Fujii, Hideki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PHLEBOTOMY; STOMACH TUBE; STOMACH VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; VEIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PHLEBOTOMY; STOMACH; SURGICALLY-CREATED STRUCTURES;

EID: 33947684247     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-006-0285-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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