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Tissue-Engineered Graft for Circumferential Esophageal Reconstruction in Rats
Published on: February 10, 2020
Esophageal cancer surgery in heart transplant patients
Burkhard H A von Rahden1, Hubert J Stein, Georg Schmidt
1Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Munich, Germany. vrahden@nt1.chir.med.tu-muenchen.de
Abstract:
We herein report about 2 heart transplant patients undergoing surgical resection for esophageal cancer. Both were long-term survivors after orthotopic heart transplantation for dilated cardiomyopathy. One patient underwent a transthoracic esophagectomy and gastric pull-up for an early squamous cell carcinoma of the infracarinal esophagus. The second patient underwent a resection of the cervical esophagus and interposition of a free jejunal segment after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy for a locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma in the cervical esophagus.
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