[Surgical treatment of gastric cancer. New experimental reconstructive technic after total gastrectomy]

The Authors deal the always present problem of a proper reconstruction of the digestive tract after total gastrectomy operations for gastric cancer. The Authors, then, describe a experimental operation, after having dealth with the considerations concerning the symptomatic consequences that usual different kind of operations cause upon patients. That operation has been experimented upon animals, and consists in a neo-stomach. In this reconstruction they interpose a tract of jejunum loop between oesophagus and duodenum. The jejunum loop must be lengthwise dissected, twisted and sutured in such away as to obtain a new structure that will be last anatomically similar to a stomach. The Authors hope that this new technique might be successfully applied upon man sometime in the future.