[Emergency surgery of the esophagus]

Emergency surgery of the esophagus is undertaken in acute diseases and injuries to the esophagus: among 926 cases of acute pathology of the esophagus 709 were mechanical ruptures of its wall, 380 z (53.6%) of an instrumental character. A rational therapeutic tactics developed at the Institute and basically new methods of treatment allowed the results to be essentially improved and the mortality rate in traumatic purulent mediastinitis to be reduced from 35% to 12%. The total mortality rate in acute surgical pathology in the last 20 years was 9.5%.