A surgical step for esophageal reconstruction in patients with esophageal cancer, through esophagogastroplasty

Esophagogastroplasty with or without esophagectomy was performed on five patients with esophageal cancer to give them a better quality of life. The procedure was performed in one single surgical step and allowed the patients swallow a normal diet without a feeding tube help within a period that ranged from ten to fifteen days after the surgery. Three out five patients the esophagectomy was accomplished by the transhiatal way. In one case the esophagus was excluded in the posterior mediastinum and in the other an end-to-side esophagojejunum anastomosis was carried out. All patients underwent to complementar theraphy with radiotheraphy and chemotheraphy or chemotheraphy alone. (author)