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Late volume changes in retrosternal colon bypass
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
Esophageal obstruction by malignancy, chemical burns, or other less common entities presents a challenge for the surgeon. Either for esophageal substitution after esophageal resection or as a bypass for the obstructed esophagus, colon interposition is often the best available option. Massive colonic enlargement requiring resection of the interposed dilated colon developed recently in 2 of our patients who had a colon bypass 22 and 10 years earlier, respectively.