[Carcinoma of the cervical esophagus]

Resection of carcinoma of the cervical portion of the oesophagus, if it is to be radical surgery, calls as a rule for concurrent laryngectomy. Patients with severe dysphagia accept gladly even this variant of surgery. In the authors' opinion it is safest to replace the extirpated oesophagus by the colon on a vascular pedicle of the left colic arteries. In some instances in that case even the caecum remains vital. Perspectively the method of choice of a resected cervical oesophagus will be replacement by an isolated jejunal loop.