The value of protecting the longitudinal staple line with invaginating sutures during esophageal reconstruction by gastric tube pull-up

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 337-341

  Silberhumer, Gerd R ^a   Györi, Georg ^a   Burghuber, Christopher ^a   Neumayer, Christoph ^a   Riegler, Martin ^a   Jakesz, Raimund ^a   Prager, Gerhard ^a   Schoppmann, Sebastian F ^a   Zacherl, Johannes ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Esophageal reconstruction; Gastric tube pull up; Staple line rupture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BLEEDING; CHYLOTHORAX; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; ILEUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; SPLEEN INJURY; STAPLE LINE LEAKAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69549123831     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000235825     Document Type: Article

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