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An Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy Designed to Minimize Anastomotic Complications and Optimize Conduit Function
Published on: April 17, 2020
[Mechanical damage and spontaneous esophageal perforation]
Abstract:
The article presents the results of treatment of 95 patients with iatrogenic damages and perforations caused by other reasons and spontaneous rupture of the esophagus. A defect of the esophagus was formed in thoracic part in 67.4% cases. Combined suppurative complications such as a neck phlegmon, mediastinitis, pleural empyema, pericarditis, pneumonia and lung abscess occurred in prevalent majority of patients. Surgical interventions were performed through cervical, thoracotomical and laparoscopical accesses. Different plastic methods of covering sutures of the esophagus were used in conditions of suppurative inflammation in 33 patients. An inconsistency of sutures was noted in 6 (18.2%) cases. Postoperative lethality consisted of 34.6% in spontaneous rupture of the esophagus and it was 11.9% in case of other damages.
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