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An Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy Designed to Minimize Anastomotic Complications and Optimize Conduit Function
Published on: April 17, 2020
[An endoscopic treatment method for postoperative stenoses]
Abstract:
The endoscopic procedures include a great variety of procedures for the treatment of the upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding of the benign and malign jaundice, of the primary or secondary gastrointestinal strictures. The authors present the case of a patient with a postcaustic oesophageal stricture for whom the surgical treatment was an esogastroanastomosis. Quite early in the postoperative course the anastomosis got, very tight due to a anastomotic fistula, and we succeed to dilate it with endoscopic procedures.
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