Transcervical gastric tube drainage facilitates patient mobility and reduces the risk of pulmonary complications after esophagectomy

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1479-1484

  Schuchert, Matthew J ^a   Pettiford, Brian L ^a   Landreneau, Joshua P ^a   Waxman, Jonathon ^a   Kilic, Arman ^a   Santos, Ricardo S ^a   Kent, Michael S ^a   El Sherif, Amgad ^a   Abbas, Ghulam ^a   Luketich, James D ^b   Landreneau, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomotic leak; Cervical esophagostomy; Esophagectomy; Gastric decompression; Ischemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; DRAINAGE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49749084705     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-008-0541-8     Document Type: Article

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