Complications of Esophageal Resection and Reconstruction

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-88

  Parekh, Kalpaj ^a   Iannettoni, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

anastomotic leaks; complications; esophagectomy; gastric necrosis; tracheal injury

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETHANECHOL; CISAPRIDE; DIPHENOXYLATE; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; KAOLIN PECTIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OCTREOTIDE; PLACEBO; PROKINETIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHYLOTHORAX; DUODENUM MUCOSA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PYLORUS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH PARESIS; STOMACH SPASM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRACHEA INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; GASTRIC EMPTYING; HUMANS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TRACHEA;

EID: 33947705752     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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